Narendra Modi says ‘son of tea seller did communist, Congress governments couldn’t’ 

Narendra Modi.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Tuesday, launched a pension scheme for 42 crore workers in the unorganized sector and said it took “just 55 months for the son of a tea seller to do what the communist governments in states and Congress could not” since independence.

While launching the Pradhan Mantri Shram Yogi Maandhan (PM-SYM) from Vastral in Ahmedabad, Modi described himself as “mazdoor (worker) number one” and said, “This is the first such scheme after independence which has touched that section of society which has not been thought about and has been left to fate. A lot of slogans have been raised, there have been no shortage of politics … In this country, communists got a chance to make governments in several states, but they never brought such a scheme for workers in the unorganized sector. Even the Congress that ruled the country and collected votes in the name of poor, but they did not remember to bring in such a scheme. In 55 months, it took a son of a tea seller to launch it.”

During the event Rs 11 lakh was transferred online to the pension accounts of over two lakh beneficiaries of the scheme across the country.

Watch Narendra Modi’s full speech during PM-SYM launch at Vastral:

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