Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday (September 22, 2025) alleged that the Congress has an "inherent habit" of abandoning immoderate improvement enactment that is difficult, and this caused important harm to the Northeast.
Addressing a rally astatine the Indira Gandhi Park successful Itanagar aft unveiling improvement projects worthy implicit ₹5,100 crore, Mr. Modi said helium knew that the Northeast couldn't beryllium developed from Delhi, and so, helium sent Ministers and officers much often to the region, and helium himself came present much than 70 times.
"One inherent wont of Congress is that they ne'er instrumentality up improvement enactment which is hard to do; they wantonness it. This wont of Congress caused important harm to Arunachal Pradesh and the full Northeast. In the hilly and forested areas, wherever improvement enactment was challenging, Congress would state the regions backward and simply hide them," helium claimed.
The PM said that with the motorboat of GST reforms connected the archetypal time of Navratri, radical volition person a "double bonanza" this festive season.
GST reforms updates connected September 22, 2025
"Today, next-generation GST reforms person been implemented crossed the country, and the GST 'Bachat Utsav' has begun. During the play of festivals, the radical person received a treble bonanza," helium said.
"The GST reforms volition trim room budget, helping women," helium added.
The PM said the erstwhile Congress authorities kept connected expanding taxes adjacent arsenic everything got expensive.
"Congress imposed a dense taxation load connected the people, but our authorities has gradually reduced taxes, giving relief," helium said.
Mr. Modi alleged the borderline villages were neglected by successive Congress governments, starring to the migration of radical from these areas.
He claimed that the Congress besides overlooked Arunachal Pradesh, arsenic it has lone 2 Lok Sabha seats.
"When I was fixed the accidental to service the federation successful 2014, I resolved to escaped the state from the mindset of Congress. Our guiding rule is not the fig of votes oregon seats successful immoderate state, but 'nation first'. Our lone mantra is 'Nagrik Devo Bhava' [the national is God]," helium said.
"Modi worships those whom nary 1 has ever asked about. That is wherefore Arunachal Pradesh, which was neglected during Congress rule, has since 2014 go a centre of developmental priority," helium added.
PM lays instauration stones for hydropower projects, normal centre
The PM said the projects helium unveiled were an illustration of "double benefits" of the "double-engine" government.
"Arunachal got ₹1 lakh crore from Centre successful the past 10 years, which is 16 times much than what it got during Congress rule," helium said.
Mr. Modi virtually laid the instauration stones for 2 large hydropower projects successful Shi Yomi district, and a normal centre successful Tawang.
The Tato-I project, with a capableness of 186 mw, volition beryllium developed jointly by the Arunachal Pradesh authorities and the North Eastern Electric Power Corporation Limited (NEEPCO) astatine ₹1,750 crore. It is expected to make astir 802 cardinal units of energy annually.
The 240-mw Heo task volition besides beryllium developed by the authorities authorities and NEEPCO astatine ₹1,939 crore. It is expected to nutrient 1,000 cardinal units of energy each year.
These projects, to beryllium developed connected the Yarjep river, are portion of a larger effort to grow Arunachal Pradesh’s hydroelectric capacity, contributing importantly to determination vigor security, officials said.
Mr. Modi besides laid the instauration chromatic for a normal centre successful Tawang, to beryllium built nether the PM-DevINE strategy astatine ₹145.37 crore. With a capableness to big implicit 1,500 people, it volition conscionable planetary standards and enactment the tourism and taste imaginable of the region, they said. The PM besides launched respective different infrastructure projects worthy implicit ₹1,290 crore, catering to assorted sectors, including connectivity, wellness and occurrence safety, they said.
