Coining a new slogan, “Ek Bharat Shrestha Bharat”, chief minister Narendra Modi has called on farmers of India to donate a small piece of iron from farming tools to build the world’s tallest “Statue of Unity” at Sardar Sarovar dam in memory of the original iron man of India, Sardar Patel.
The appeal was made by Modi while inaugurating an all-India conference on livestock and dairy development in Gandhinagar on Tuesday. The event was attended by farmers and cattle owners from 20 states and 200 districts of the country. Modi said that the iron pieces brought from rural India would be melted and utilized for building the statue. He said the statue would be built from iron to justify Sardar Patel’s stature as Iron Man. Modi said the statue would be taller than the Statue of Liberty in the US.
Sources said that Modi plans to launch a massive campaign in the name of Sardar Patel on his birth anniversary on October 31. BJP workers will travel across five lakh villages across India to collect iron pieces.
In his inaugural address at the conference Modi announced that Gujarat would host the biggest agro tech fair in India to boost the agriculture sector.
Criticizing centre’s “pink revolution” policy, he said, “While we are encouraging white revolution and green revolution, the centre is keen boosting pink revolution. The Union government has decided to give relief to slaughter houses in income tax.”
Modi suggested that India be divided into six to eight agri zones where grass lands are developed to provide sufficient fodder to drought-affected parts. “Our agri economy should be divided into agriculture, animal husbandry and tree plantation. These three pillars will bring positive changes in the rural areas of the country,” he said.
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