DD lives up to expectation; presents Modinama II

Here's a look at 'Ek Nai Subeh - A New Dawn'

• Actor R Madhavan was the main anchor, along with DD veteran Neelam Sharma.
• The Bolly-brigade included (as anchors and guests) Amitabh Bachchan, Kajol, Raveena Tandon, Vidya Balan. Among the performers was singer Kailash Kher while adman and lyricist Piyush Pandey participated.

'Achievements' discussed:

• Beti Bachao Beti Padhao
• Indradhanush
• Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana
• Swachch Bharat
• e-boats in Varanasi
• rural electrification
• Ujwala
• Jan Dhan
• Jan Suraksha
• Mudra
• skill development
• Digital India

Among ministers who attended were:

• Rajyavardhan Rathore
• Babul Supriyo
• Maneka Gandhi
• JP Nadda
• Harsimrat Kaur Badal
• Kiren Rijiju
• Chaudhary Birender Singh
• Ram Vilas Paswan
• Jayant Sinha
• Najma Heptullah
• Radha Mohan Singh
• Jual Oram
• Jitender Singh
• Mahesh Sharma
• Nitin Gadkari
• Smriti Irani
• Santosh Gangwar
• VK Singh
• Rajiv Pratap Rudy
• Ravi Shankar Prasad
• Harsh Vardhan

Highlights of PMspeak

• The government should be regularly assessed in a democracy and his government was being evaluated minutely in every corner of the country for the last 15 days.
• Some people are compelled to oppose because of political reasons. On the one hand of this so-called divide is vikasvaad (editor's note: that's 'development-ism', loosely); on the other is virodhvaad ('oppose-ism').
• We should not commit the mistake of pushing the country in a pit of despondency without any reason.
• If my government claims it has uplifted the coal sector, it will be considered just another task. The full significance will be felt only after looking at what happened under the previous government.
• Corruption had become a termite; but I took many steps, one after another, to plug leakages.
• We saved Rs 15,000 crore by weeding out corruption through direct transfer of gas subsidy. My countrymen will tell me Modiji you did the right thing.
• We have identified 1 crore 62 lakh fake ration cards. We saved Rs 540 crore only in one state by identifying fake teachers.
• In all, leakages worth nearly Rs 36,000 crore have stopped, and this is just the beginning.
• Some people ask me: "You work so hard, why people oppose you so much?" I tell them those who have lost this much money, what else will they do?
• Through the LED bulb campaign in 500 cities, nearly 20,000 megawatts electricity was saved. This translates into savings of Rs 1 lakh crore required for setting up a power company.
• About 1 crore 13 lakh people gave up subsidy on my casual request. We have given new gas connections to nearly three crore households in one for the first time ever in India.
• Through the soil health card mission, we started trusting people by enabling self-certification. Country belongs to them too. I have asked Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu to run a train without TTE any one day.
• We did away with interviews for Class 3 and 4 employees, because corruption revolved around these interviews.
• If I started counting achievements in two years, DD will have to run this event for a week.

There you go.