JOIN US“Give It Up”, announced Prime Minister Modi in his boisterous public rally speech at the National College Grounds in Basavanagudi on Friday.
The message was directed at the political class, the bureaucracy and the affluent professionals to give up their subsidised LPG cylinders.
After Jan Dhan, Beti Bachao and Beti Padao and Swachh Bharath Abhiyaan and more, Modi announced a slogan aimed at coaxing the affluent and elite to give up gas subsidy.
Appealing to the emotions of the upper middle class, Modi recalled his encounters with families in rural India which still use firewood to prepare three square meals a day.
“Think about the mothers who struggle every day by using firewood to prepare food for their children. Think about the children who fall sick, just by inhaling the gases, every day because of this. Imagine if one crore people give up their gas subsidy of Rs 200 or Rs 400, one crore mothers will lead such peaceful lives. I appeal to the MPs, MLAs and politicians, the IAS and IPS officers, the progressionals who do not have a financial need to claim subsidy, Give It Up,” he said.
Modi said the subsidy, which the sections of society will forgo, shall not be deposited in the government treasury.