Jaipur: Inaugurating and laying foundation stones for projects worth Rs 1.22 lakh crore, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday slammed the Congress for ignoring the country’s energy needs, highlighting his government’s achievement of giving free power to 2.5 crore households since 2014.

Addressing a rally at Banswara as part of a visit during which he unveiled 12 major schemes and projects across various sectors for 21 districts of Rajasthan, PM Modi said, “There was not even an electricity poll in 18,000 villages when we came to power in 2014.”

“The Congress ignored the power sector, and there used to be long power cuts in cities and villages,” he said, adding that earlier, the restoration of electricity supply used to be a bigger news than a supply cut.

He said the corruption and l

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