PM Narendra Modi's Mathura rally: As it happened

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addreses a rally at Mathura to mark the first anniversary of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA government at the Centre.

Mathura: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday addressed a rally at Mathura to mark the first anniversary of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA government at the Centre. The rally was held at Nagla Chandrabhan which is the birth place of RSS idealogue Deen Dayal Upadhyaya. This was the first of a series of public rallies being organised by BJP across the country during the week long celebrations from 26 to 31 May called the 'Jan Kalyan Parv'.

Here are the updates:

- PM Modi signs off with Bharat Mata Ki Jai.

- Raise your hands and bless me. Tell me if I have fallen short: PM.

- We will get rid of poverty, make our nation economically stronger, make our nation proud globally: PM Modi.

- Every moment of my life, all the strength in my body is dedicated to you. My government will take this country to new heights: PM.

- Didn't I promise I would not take a vacation, I would not rest? Have I let you down, PM Modi asks people.

- I cannot do anything for those on whom bad days have come. Let them shout: PM Modi.

- Are you unhappy with me, PM asks people at the rally.

- My government's schemes are for the poor and not rich industrialists, emphasises PM Modi.

- If I try and go through all the decisions that this government has taken in 365 days, it will take more than 365 hours: PM.

- We will eradicate poverty together. We will also take this country to new heights: PM.

- I have also decided that by 2022 every poor in this country will have a house of their own. I am developing a team which who will fight poverty: PM.

- Both rivers, Ganga and Yamuna are my mothers. We will clean them: PM Modi.

- We started the Clean India mission. Its not the rich who suffer due to unhygienic conditions. Its the poor who suffer from dirty environment and fall ill. I want to end that: PM.

- Its sad that our mothers and sisters have to wait for dark in order to go to toilet. My dream that there should be toilet in every village: PM.

- I want small businessmen to have access to bank loans, hence we thought of the Mudra Bank to give loans from Rs 10,000 to 10 lakhs: PM.

- Big corporates don't generate a lot of employment. It is the small traders and businessmen who provide the maximum employment: PM.

- If India has to fight poverty, the youth of the nation must get employment opportunities: PM Modi.

- Compared to last year 6 lakhs more tourists have come to India. Tourism creates job opportunities: PM.

- The world is now trusting India and this is bringing investment in India: PM.

- We have been able to control the rising prices: PM.

- If you had not elected this government, then we don't know what would have happened to price rise and inflation: PM Modi.

- PM Modi appeals to audience to use the insurance scheme for servants, drivers and other employees.

- We want to create an environment where there is a sense of social security within people. For this we have introduced Atal pension yojana. Did you ever imagine that a farmer in our nation could get pension after 60 years?, asks PM.

- During last elections I had said, that if I had my way I would end one law every day. Laws which have lost relevance will be scrapped, that will make many processes smooth. In the coming days 1300 laws will be abolished: PM.

- My government provided bank accounts to poor people and is committed to provide opportunities to them. More than 12 crore people get gas subsidy benefits directly in their accounts: PM.

- There were so many people who never got pension. Ours is a government dedicated to the poor and we have decided to give adequate pension: PM.

- The government won't keep one rupee of yours. We will send every rupee to the deserving employee: PM Modi.

- For years 27 thousand crores was lying idle and rotting with the government in the treasury. That money was of the poor. People used to change job, his money was cut but he did not know about it. Now there is a unique identity number, so whenever you quit a job, the unique ID number is transferred and so is the money: PM.

- We have done away with the necessity to get documents attested by government officials. We have taught India to trust its citizens: PM.

- Earlier citizens of this country had to get photocopy of their documents signed by MLA or corporator, why, are citizens of my nation is not truthful, asks PM.

- I had promised 'maximum governance, minimum government' and I have fulfilled that promise. I have brought change: PM.

- Jan Dhan Scheme has removed middle man from MNREGA: Modi.

- PM Modi says they have started putting 'neem coating' on fertilisers to prevent urea theft.

- Urea production is going to increase by 20 lakh tonnes: PM Modi

- We have decided that in the next five years rivers will be interlinked, water harvesting will be done and through many such things we will give water and electricity to every farmer in the next five years. The amount of electricity that was generated in one year was not done in the last 30 years: PM Modi.

- The farmer will then know about the condition of his land: PM.

- In the past 60 years more than 3 lakh farmers have committed suicide but we do not want to do politics on it. The farmer knows how to work hard. We decided that we will give every farmer in the next three years soil health card: PM.

- We opened bank accounts for the poor. The poor were not given the opportunity to enter the banks for so many years: PM.

- I did not promise good days for those who looted the country: PM.

-  I have barred power brokers from the corridors of power. These were the people who ruled for 60 years. They are history now, there is no place for such people. I will not let anyone loot the country. I am your pradhan sevak: PM.

- Good days have come for the people of India but those on whom bad days have descended are troubled as power has been snatched from them: PM.

- In the previous regime no work was done for the poor. I have made sure that things are back on track: PM.

- Are bad days over or not, PM Modi asks the people.

- Coal mines were given to a select few....keep looting...this was what was followed: PM

- Every day there were scams, remote controls ran the government, officers were jailed, leaders were jailed, coal was stolen: PM

- You tell me have you heard of any of my minister involved in corruption. Has not the country been rid of loot and corruption: PM.

- Would things have changed had you allowed the previous government to continue: PM.

- You tell me has the situation not changed in the country. The change that has taken place in the last year, Modi has not brought but you have: PM.

- During UPA rule, there were scams and corruption - coal scam and 2G scam and what not. The country was in bad shape: Modi.

- Today there is a positivity in the air and feeling of change in the country. If elections had not been held in 2014 but a year later, this country would have been destroyed: PM.

- Three thoughts shaped us in the last several years - that of Mahatma Gandhi, Lohia ji and Deendayal ji: PM.

- A year back the people of India chose a government with absolute majority. We could have held celebrations in Delhi or any other town with a huge population. But I didn't want that. I had said in Parliament that this government was of the poor. After 365 days in office, I had wanted that the man who had inspired us to work for the poor, I should go to his birthplace and pay tribute to him. That is why I have come here: PM.

- This is the place where Pandit Deendayal Upadhaya was born. His message was - Keep going, do not get tired, do not stop: PM.

- PM Narendra Modi begins his address.

- PM Modi reaches the venue.

- Ahead of PM's rally tight security has been put in place with eight companies of Provincial Armed Constabulary (PAC) and five companies of Rapid Action Force (RAF) being deployed at the venue.

- Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a rally at Mathura to mark the first anniversary of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA government at the Centre.

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