Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday criticised those accusing him of working for the rich, saying people “neck-deep in vote bank politics” should answer if moneyed people lived in the 18,000 villages where his government had provided power for the first time since Independence.
Addressing a function at Sindri, after inaugurating ₹27,000-crore worth projects for Jharkhand, he directed his ‘naamdar (dynast)’ barb at the Congress.
He said they did not know the pain of ‘kaamdars (ordinary workers)’ and were accusing him of working for the wealthy.
“I wish to question these ‘naamdars’ about this [why villages lived in darkness], who do not know the pain of ‘kaamdars’,” he said.
