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Amit Shah’S Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh ) Pravas https://www.facebook.com/Kamal.Sandesh/ www.kamalsandesh.org @kamalsandeshbjp PROPER MANAGEMENT OF BILATERAL RELATION IMPORTANT For ‘ASIAN CENTury’ Vol. 13, No. 10 16-31 May, 2018 (Fortnightly) `20 Every village “powered and empowered” now THE IMPEACHMENT FIasco – ANOTHER ‘MODERN, PROGRESSIVE AND DEVELOPED TMC UNLEASHES CYCLE OF EXAMPLE OF CONGRESS ADOPTING A 1 I KAMAL SANDESHKARNAT AI K01-15A IS JULY,THE BJ2017P’s VISIon’ 16-31V MAY,IOLENCE 2018 I N I WESKAMALT BENGAL SANDESH I 1 FRINGE POSITION glimpses of bjp national president shri amit shah’s bhopal (madhya pradesh ) pravas Madhya Pradesh BJP welcoming Party National President Shri Amit Shah and other BJP senior leaders to the meeting venue, Bhopal Shri Amit Shah addressing the state BJP extended meeting in Bhopal, MP 2 I KAMAL SANDESH I 16-31 MAY, 2018Grand views of karyakartas participating in the meeting in Bhopal Fortnightly Magazine Editor Prabhat Jha Executive Editor Dr. Shiv Shakti Bakshi Associate Editors Ram Prasad Tripathy Vikash Anand Creative Editors Vikas Saini Mukesh Kumar Phone +91(11) 23381428 FAX +91(11) 23387887 A HISTORIC MILESTONE IN DEVELOPMENT E-mail JOURNEY OF INDIA [email protected] On April 28, 2018 Leisang in Manipur, became the last village to be added [email protected] 06 to the national power grid in India. Following that achievement the whole Website: www.kamalsandesh.org country celebrated on that day after the target to bring electricity... 11 RAKESH SINGH IS NEW VAICHARIKI MADHYA PRADESH BJP Jinnah wanted partition on the basis of PRESIDENT Bharatiya Janata Party Muslims and non–Muslims 15 National President Shri Amit Shah on April 18, 2018 SHRADHANJALI nominated Jabalpur Lok Sabha MP Rakesh Singh as K. Jana Krishnamurthi / B N Vijay Kumar 17 09 DEFEATING BJP IN MADHYA the new BJP President of... PRADESH IS BEYOND ARTICLE CONGRess’ capABILITIES: The Impeachment Fiasco – Another Example of Congress... 18 AMIT SHAH Addressing a huge DIALOGUE OF DEMOCRACY : MANN KI BAAT 24 gathering of BJP Karyakartas BJP National TMC unleashes cycle of violence in West Bengal 26 President Shri Amit Shah... Congress bubble to impeach CJI punctured 30 OTHERS 13 TO INCREASE THE INCOME OF FARMERS The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs, PM launches Rashtriya Gram Swaraj Abhiyan; unveils... 12 chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on May 2 gave its approval for the Govt. launches Pilot scheme to Procure Aggregate ... 19 Umbrella Scheme, “Green Revolution – ... BJP campaign trail in Karnataka 20 14 GST REVENUE COLLECTION IN THE MONTH OF BJP releases manifesto for Karnataka... 22 APRIL 2018 EXCEEDS RS. 1 LAKH CRORE India–China informal summit in Wuhan 28 The total Gross GST revenue collected in the month of April 2018 is Rs.1,03,458 crore of which Mann Ki Baat Programme 32 CGST is Rs18,652 crore, SGST is Rs.25,704 crore,... Publisher and Printer: Printed by Dr. Nandkishore Garg, Published by Dr. Nandkishore Garg on behalf of Dr. Mookerjee Smruti Nyas and Printed16-31 at MAY, HT Media 2018 Limited, I KAMAL B-2, Sector-63, SANDESH Noida I 3 (UP)-201307 and Published from PP-66, Subramanya Bharati Marg, New Delhi-110003. Editor - Prabhat Jha. SOCIAL MEDIA CORNER @narendramodi Wherever I go in Karnataka, I see huge Congress can win Gold Medals in corruption, anger among people against the corrupt telling lies and making false promises. Siddaramaiah govt. But this corrupt regime is a matter of few days, on 12th May, Karnataka will vote for development. — Amit Shah @ChouhanShivraj Under PM @narendramodi’s leadership, BJP National Health Mission (NHM) has decided Govt. rolled out numerous measures for farmer to roll out ‘Integrated initiative for prevention welfare, including spending Rs 1,200 crore to turn & control of viral hepatitis’ with a budget of Chambal ravines into cultivable land and opening 517.39 crores for three years with various of customized processing and service centres that will be run by components such as surveillance, awareness farmers. #NaavuModiJothe. generation, immunization etc. — J.P.Nadda @myogiadityanath Highest Revenue Growth in 3 years: Indian ‘Beej Se Bazaar Tak’ by PM @narendramodi led BJP Railways has attracted 6.75 crore more Govt, brings technology to farming with initiatives passengers in 2017-18 than it did in 2016- like, Soil Health Cards, 100% Neem Coated Urea & 17, which helped it earn ₹48,643 crore, an ‘Per Drop-More Crop’ micro-irrigation and many increase of 5.1% from the previous year. more. #FarmerswithModi. — Piyush Goyal Kamal Sandesh Parivar wishes a very happy ‘GANGA DUSSEhra’ Courtesy: Social Media to its readers 4 I KAMAL SANDESH I 16-31 MAY, 2018 EDITORIAL EVERY VILLAGE GETS ELECTRICITY NOW eisang in Manipur became the last village to get electricity in India. A village housing around 38 families with a population little more than 200 people finds itself connected to the vast field of L opportunities awaiting it. As the first bulb is switched on, a new sense of empowerment and relief was evident on the face of the people. The excitement of the villagers reported in a newspaper sums up the mood in the words of village secretary Lalboi, “That night, none of us, including the children, slept due to the excitement. The children kept running around in the fields. We are very thankful to the government. No words can express how happy we are.” People are celebrating newfound status of their village which can now leap forward to write its own story of development transforming the lives of all the villagers. Leisang is not alone in feeling this excitement while getting ready to welcome a new future. All the census villages numbering 18,452 are now electrified and now feeling a new sense of empowerment. There was no hope for these villages to get electricity until the Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced from the ramparts of the Red Fort during his Independence Day address to the nation in 2015 that all these villages were going to be electrified within 1000 days. These villages situated in far flung areas, having THE CONGRESS difficult terrain and connectivity, were left behind in the country’s march to development. SHOULD REALIZE As they remained isolated due to their geography, they were pushed down even in the THAT IT’s noT AN priority list of the government. A sense of hopelessness gripped the inhabitants of these ACHIEVEMENT OF villages who could not see a bright future for themselves in the absence of electricity. ANY PARTY BUT The doors of a number of opportunity remained shut for these large number of people OF THE ENTIRE which was to be unlocked only by connecting them to the electricity grid of the country. NATION AND IT At the normal pace it might have taken years for these villages to get electricity, but it was SHOULD READY mainly owing to the special emphasis of the prime Minister that these villages are able to ITSELF TO JOIN SUCH get electricity even before the target period of 1000 days. MILESTONES OR IT The approach of the Prime minister in taking these hitherto neglected villages along in the development journey symbolises the spirit behind the mantra of ‘Sabka Saath, WILL FIND ITSELF Sabka Vikas’. The concept of development under this mantra is not only all-embracing ISOLATED IN THESE and holistic but it also has special focus on the poor, deprived and oppressed sections KINDS OF NATIONAL of the society. BJP has an integral approach towards the comprehensive development CELEBRATIONS of the country and as long as any part or constituents of our nation remains deprived, the WHICH ARE SURE journey cannot find its fulfilment in its idea of ‘Ek Bharat, Shreshtha Bharat’. Connecting TO INCREASE IN THE 18,452 villages to electricity has enabled this hitherto neglected section of society to COMING DAYS. reap the fruits of development and march along with the country with newly acquired confidence and hope. While nation is celebrating this unique achievement of our country, a section of opposition led by Congress is indulging in ludicrous criticism making themselves a laughing stock. The Congress should realize that it’s not an achievement of any party but of the entire nation and it should ready itself to join such milestones or it will find itself isolated in these kinds of national celebrations which are sure to increase in the coming days. After connecting all the villages to the electricity grid, the government’s focus has now shifted to provide electricity connection to all the homes which still remains unconnected. It will further revolutionise Indian growth story and transform the lives of millions of people. In the world today, without making electricity available development remains a distant dream. Prime Minister Narendra Modi should be congratulated for taking this visionary initiative to make electricity available to every home while writing a new saga of development in transforming the lives of millions. [email protected] 16-31 MAY, 2018 I KAMAL SANDESH I 5 COVER STORY A historic milestone in development journey of India India fully electrified after the last village ‘Manipur’s Leisang’ gets power n April 28, 2018 Leisang in Manipur, became the coming years”. “We fulfilled a commitment due to which last village to be added to the national power the lives of several Indians will be transformed forever”, O grid in India. Following that achievement the he said, announcing every village in the country was whole country celebrated on that day after the target “powered and empowered”. to bring electricity to all villages was achieved. Village BJP National President Shri Amit Shah said, “Today, electrification targets of the Modi government under the entire nation is celebrating power for every single ‘Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojna’ (DDUGJY) village while the Congress is mourning the loss of power have been achieved well before time.
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