Celebrate Diwali with local products, PM urged people

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has called upon the citizens of the country to celebrate Diwali this year with local products. He gave the slogan LOCAL For DIWALI this year and said that it is our commitment and responsibility to celebrate diwali with all locally produced items. After  inaugurating and laying the foundation for 30 development projects in his parliamentary constituency Varanasi on Monday, the PM began his speech in Banarasi dialect and thanked farmers of Poorvanchal and said that despite COVID-19 pandemic they produced bumper crops in their fields.   

He said that a lot of development took place in the last 6 years and many projects have changed the very look of the city. Varanasi is developing in every aspect and it is benefiting the people of the Poorvanchal area of the state who don’t have to go to big cities like Delhi and Mumbai.Talking about the recent farm bills PM said that they are going to benefit the farmers as now middlemen are being excluded from the system.
Speaking on the occasion Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath termed the projects as a pre-Diwali Gift by the PM to the people of Kashi. He said that currently projects worth around 8900 crore rupees are going on in Kashi. Till date the Prime Minister has sanctioned projects worth 18 thousand crores to his constituency Varanasi. Yogi Adityanath said that Projects worth around 200 crores were also ready for inauguration but due to the ongoing election process here for graduate MLC elections they couldn't be inaugurated.