Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the gathering in Varanasi.
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Lucknow: Prime minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that 'dynastic politics' was a 'big danger'' for the country and that the youths of the country suffered the most at the hands of the 'dynasts'.
'Aaj desh ke samne parivarvadi rajnit bda khatra hai....ye parivarvadi desh ke yuvaon ka sabse jyada nuksan karte hain' (a big danger for the country today is dynastic politics....these dynasts harm the youths the most), Modi said while addressing a public meeting after launching and dedicating to the people developmental schemes worth thousands of crores in his Lok Sabha constituency of Varanasi.
Stating that the dynasts never gave opportunities to the youths to progress, the prime minister said that keeping this in mind he had planned to bring one lakh youths into politics whose families did not have any political past.
"It is a step which will change the course of Indian politics...it's a step to eradicate the mentality of corruption and dynastic politics,'' he added.
Modi said that previous governments only encouraged dynasts and indulged in appeasement and that was the reason why Varanasi could not develop during their tenure. ''Our government believes in sanka saath sabka vikas and it does not discriminate on the issue of development,'' Modi said.
He said that the BJP did what it said. ''We had fulfilled the promise of constructing the Ram Temple,'' he said adding that millions of devotees now visited Ayodhya and pay obeisance at the Ram Temple there.
He also referred to the triple talaq and said that it was BJP, which came to the rescue of the Muslim girls and got rid of such a system.
The prime minister also referred to the BJP's victory in the recent assembly polls in Haryana. ''We were victorious for the third straight time...BJP also got record number of votes in Jammu & Kashmir,'' he added.
The prime minister said that his government's commitment was to make sure that investments increased facilities for the people and generated employment opportunities for the youths.
Earlier Modi launched and dedicated to the nation 23 developmental schemes worth Rs 6700 crore. He also inaugurated an eye hospital to be operated by Kanchi Kmakoti Mutt.