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Union Home Minister Amit Shah connected Saturday (June 20, 2026) said Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 12 years successful bureau is conscionable a commencement and determination volition beryllium BJP and NDA regularisation successful the state for galore years to come.
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Mr. Shah besides said the PM’s 12 years successful bureau would inhabit a important spot successful the past of Independent India.
“When the past of autarkic India is written, the section connected Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 12 years successful bureau volition beryllium recorded for creating a resurgent India and for enhancing the country’s prestige crossed the world,” Mr. Shah said portion addressing a gathering aft the motorboat of the Goddess Ambabai temple corridor task present successful Maharashtra.
At different nationalist rally successful Ichalkaranji successful Kolhapur district, Mr. Shah said, “Mr. Modi’s 12 years successful bureau is conscionable a start. There volition beryllium BJP and NDA regularisation for galore years to come.” He said tasks erstwhile considered intolerable had been accomplished nether Mr. Modi’s leadership, citing the operation of the Ayodhya Ram temple, redevelopment of Kashi Vishwanath corridor, Kedarnath and Badrinath shrines, and works astatine Somnath and Kamakhya temples.
‘Cultural renaissance’
Mr. Shah said a taste renaissance was taking spot crossed the state nether the mantra of “Vikas bhi, Virasat bhi” (development arsenic good arsenic heritage), and described the Ambabai temple corridor arsenic different measurement successful preserving India’s spiritual and taste legacy.
He said the ₹500-crore task would alteration the seventh-century shrine into a modern pilgrimage centre equipped with AI-based information systems, practice galleries and a light-and-sound show.
Mr. Shah said that 41 temples successful and astir the Mahalaxmi temple would beryllium conserved successful consultation with the Archaeological Department. He said, “Spending ₹1,500 crore connected places wherever our history, religion and civilization reside is not a large amount. Such places animate the full country.”
He said Mr. Modi had precocious go the country’s longest-serving Prime Minister and credited him with strengthening India crossed sectors ranging from infrastructure and manufacturing to semiconductors, quantum engineering, bundle and abstraction technology.
Attacking the Congress, Mr. Shah said during UPA’s regularisation 12 years ago, weaponry blasts took spot frequently, but "the past PM kept mum". However, during Mr. Modi’s time, India responded to attacks successful Uri, Pulwama and Pahalgam with surgical strikes and Operation Sindoor, helium said.
Indian equipped forces person been modernised successful the past 12 years. Security agencies person controlled coercion successful Kashmir, portion northeast India is calm and Naxalism has go history, helium said.
He alleged that Congress ne'er cared for farmers. Between 2004 and 2014, Congress waived workplace loans worthy ₹60,000 crore. A full of ₹4,28,000 crore has been transferred to farmers’ accounts successful 22 instalments nether PM Modi, helium said.
The Modi authorities besides waived ₹46,000 crore successful taxes aft farmers appealed for alleviation from taxes connected profits earned by sweetener factories, helium said.
Mr. Shah besides announced an inaugural for cooperative sweetener factories that cannot instal ethanol units and said a task worthy ₹1,500 crore volition beryllium acceptable up successful Kolhapur that volition assistance the factories process their products, and profits volition beryllium sent backmost to them.
On Bengal polls
Referring to the BJP’s triumph successful West Bengal polls, Mr. Shah said, “We are indebted to the radical of Bengal for their spot and volition repay it by identifying each infiltrator and throwing them retired of the country.” He took a jibe astatine Shiv Sena (UBT) main Uddhav Thackeray, accusing him of sitting successful Congress’s thigh and trying to crook infiltrators into a ballot bank, informing that India is not a dharmshala.
In an evident notation to the imminent divided successful Sena (UBT), Mr. Shah said that earlier radical had to notation to the Shinde-led faction separately, but “now nary faction remains, and determination is lone 1 Shiv Sena, which is headed by Eknath Shinde”. The Sena (UBT) is staring astatine a situation arsenic astatine slightest six Lok Sabha MPs are believed to person revolted against Mr. Thackeray and are apt to transverse implicit to the ruling Shiv Sena. “These Congress leaders and Uddhav ji, who is sitting successful the thigh of the Congress, privation to past by turning infiltrators into a ballot bank. I privation to archer them intelligibly that this state is not a dharmshala (charitable shelter). Only those who beryllium to this state volition unrecorded here," Mr. Shah said.
Mr. Shah was successful Kolhapur to laic the instauration for the caller Pradakshina Marg and for the conservation enactment of Parivar Devata Mandir astatine the Mahalaxmi temple.
