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on itself. Recently, we increased the CNG (Compressed natural
gas) price; after all we have to manage things. If you increase
the petrol price, you have many reasons to tell. When we
increase the CNG price, you will not agree with any reason.
The media is requested that they should do something positive,
and if they cannot, they must not at least mislead the people. It
is the responsibility of the media to raise the poor man’s voice.

In this poor welfare fair, we have achieved many things. It
is possible to have some weaknesses at some places. You may
or may not accept them, but I have courage to say them. If you
have got a thing which is weak, just write a letter and inform
me. I shall set it right. If you buy half a kilo of potato, and find
two of them stale, you replace them immediately. However, if
you buy 500 kg of potatoes, you are sure to have a few of stale
potatoes, you can know about this only when you examine them.
In the same way, this poor welfare fair exchanges millions of
things; if there has been a shortcoming somewhere, you must
tell us and we will blacklist that company or industrial unit;
you have to just tell about it.

It remains completely true that no other government could
distribute the benefit of government schemes to the people in
the presence of thousands of people, publicly. We have displayed
courage, it is a difficult task. Perhaps it will help to augment
people’s confidence. It can be achieved only when confidence
is cultivated with a true mind. We have taken this step in order
to make an ordinary person believe that we have taken the right
course for the welfare of the poor. This government has placed
an amount as big as two hundred crore rupees before 90,000
beneficiaries here in Bhavnagar in a little time of just four hours.
Have you ever thought how much these two hundred crore
rupees can do if this amount is put into the economic system of
a district. It is simply out of imagination. The poor have
contributed in this race for development. This type of
environment is being successfully created by this poor welfare
fair.

We, on the one hand, are fighting with poverty; and on the
other, rising costs are creating new stumbling blocks before the