ORAI (JALAUN): PM Narendra Modi blamed the opposition on Saturday for the “dangerous revadi (freebie) culture” taking root in electoral politics, contrasting it with the inauguration of the 296km Bundelkhand Expressway in UP’s Jalaun to drive home the point that BJP’s focus remains development.
“Those who perpetuate this culture will never build new expressways, airports or defence corridors for you. People of this mindset feel they can buy off voters with free revadi (a popular north Indian sweet),” the PM said. “Together, we have to defeat this thinking; we have to free the politics of our country from this culture. The youth, especially, should guard against it.”
Modi said that unlike the opposition, BJP’s double-engine government in UP had chosen not to take a shortcut and instead work hard to improve the state’s future. Both SP and AAP had promised a slew of freebies in the run-up to the assembly polls that BJP won.
