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not have got an opportunity to serve you even for three days.
However, when we realize the people’s expectations, it begets
us amazing bliss and joy. Therefore, it is an opportunity when,
in place of honouring the Chief Minister, I should go to people
and bow before them, to honour them, to express my gratitude
and to display my indebtedness to them, and there cannot be a
greater, more significant, more proud moment for me, and due
to this, I have thought about something. I have an idea. Gujarat
is about to be 50 years old, it is the time for silver anniversary;
and on the other hand, it is the opportunity when you have
taken work from this Chief Minister for 3,000 days. Therefore, I
have blended the two occasions in order to chalk out a scheme.
The pride of 3,000 days can be achieved only when on the
occasion of Gujarat completing its 50 years of existence, there
are held fifty poor welfare fairs in each district of Gujarat, and
these should be instrumental in providing direct aid to the poor.
A number of schemes are made, they are kept in view.
Newspapers carry their news with big photographs too. You
must have seen all this. There are television shots, followed by
interviews, and a lot of hailing, and then, nobody knows what
happens to them all. A child takes food daily, but if this food is
not giving nutrition to his body, what use is that food? The
parents would automatically worry about it. I too feel such a
thing. Such a large budget, so much of money is spent on all
this, but why has the condition of our poor people not changed?
Why is his body not growing? There is certainly some
shortcoming, and this cannot be made up by speeches. We will
have to locate its remedy, and when we went about it, we
inferred that we ourselves should go to the poor, so that they
are given the things due to them, only this would bring about a
change in their condition. You listen to the speeches delivered
by leaders, politicians and government representatives, and you
also come across different types of orders and commands that
they issue, but the moot question is: what is the truth?
The President of the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP) in Gujarat said one thing. Ask any two editors of
newspapers, any two senior journalists, the district magistrate,