PM said, “There will be rapid development in the coming five years.” (File)

Yavatmal:

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the ruling BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) will cross the 400-seat mark in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections and said the country will see rapid development in the next five years.

Speaking at a public rally in Yavatmal district, Prime Minister Modi criticized the Congress over pending irrigation projects in the country, especially in the Vidarbha region of eastern Maharashtra, where the district is located.

“We (BJP-led NDA) will cross the 400-seat mark this time,” Prime Minister Modi said ahead of the Lok Sabha elections to be held in April-May.

There are a total of 543 seats in the Lok Sabha.

“There will be rapid development in the coming five years,” the Prime Minister said.

He attacked former Union minister Sharad Pawar and said that when he held the agriculture portfolio (in the Congress-led UPA government from 2004 to 2014), a financial package for farmers would be announced but before it reached the beneficiaries. The money will be withdrawn. ,

The PM said that before 2014, the year BJP came to power at the Centre, only 15 out of 100 families in the country got piped water.

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