PM Modi said: “Some documents have come out that reveal that some people outside India are trying to malign India’s tea and the nation’s image associated with it.
Speaking at Sonitpur in Assam, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said that a conspiracy is being hatched to malign India, and especially Indian tea. PM Modi made the claim citing “some documents”. The Prime Minister, reaching out to the tea garden workers of Assam and West Bengal, said they will seek answers from political parties that are allegedly backing those behind such machinations.
Assam was known for tea and that the red tea of Sonitpur was unparalleled, PM Modi reiterated. “I personally know about it,” he said, adding that attempts were being made to run down the state’s most famous product.
PM Modi said: “Some documents have come out that reveal that some people outside India are trying to malign India’s tea and the nation’s image associated with it. Every tea garden, every tea worker will seek answers from those political parties behind the conspirators.”
The PM talked about the “conspiracy” while referring to the budgetary allocation of ₹ 1,000 crore for a welfare scheme for the plantation workers. Earlier, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had also ₹ 34,000 crore over three years for road projects in the northeastern state.
PM Modi today laid the foundation of two medical colleges at Biswanath and Charaideo and launched “Asom Mala”, a highways-and-roads project.
“Since independence for seven decades Assam had six medical collages. But in the past five years, we have started to build six more medical colleges. With this, Assam will get 1,600 MBBS doctors every year,” PM Modi said.
Asom Mala will gel with the national Bharatmala project that seeks to connect over 500 districts of the country with four-lane highways, he added.
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