 I am eager to interact with Karkatas from Kanyakumari, Coimbatore, Nilgirij, Namakkal, I bow to the rich culture of this great state. Tamil culture and Tamil language is one of the oldest in the history of mankind. This is the land that is home to Tamil, one of the most beautiful languages. The shores of Tamil Nadu have drawn people from all over the world. Tamil Nadu is known for industry and innovation. It is a center of literature and learning. Agriculture and art have flourished here. People from Tamil Nadu are making their mark across the world. They are making their state as well as their country proud. I am happy to have the opportunity to meet you all. We will go to 5 different places and talk to the Karkatas. Later, first go to Coimbatore and I know Coimbatore is known for the textile and IT sectors. I have fond of memories of my visit there in 2014. A ball from Coimbatore who would like to talk. Coimbatore's award is not coming. Your mic is okay. Yes, now you start. When I come. It is a blessing for me to share my thoughts with you directly. Thank you very much. I am very proud to say that in 2019, we will undoubtedly come back to power under the leadership of Coimbatore. Kavita Ji Namaskar. Welcome. And thank you for your best wishes. BJP believes in Sapkashat Sapkavikas. BJP believes that India can only develop when North, South, East and West all develop. BJP government given special attention to the needs of South India. No central government has done as much for Tamil Nadu as we have from health to housing and from skills to sanitation. Lives of people are being improved across all sectors. Kavita Ji, sit here comfortably. Let me give you a few examples. More than 70,000 people from Tamil Nadu have received free treatment under PM Jai. Aishma and Bharat, people used to say Modi care. In less than three months, more than 47 lakh toilets were constructed in Tamil Nadu and more than 12,000 villages were declared open, defecation free. In four years, more than 3,000 kilometers of rural roads were constructed in Tamil Nadu in the last four years. More than 27 lakh women have got smoke-free lives with Ujwala, with the gas connection in the last four years. More than four lakh youth have got skill training in the last four years. Lacks of people have got Mudra loans, Mudra Yojana in the last four years. More than four lakh 30,000 families have got a home, Pakka Ghar in the last four years. Under Sagar Mala program, three major power development works were awarded to Tamil Nadu. Under Swadesha Darshan, development of coastal circuit Chennai, Mamallapuram, Rameshwaram, Manapadu, Kanyakumari is underway. All this has happened through the efforts of the central government on the... Imagine the kind of contribution we can make if we get a chance to serve the people of Tamil Nadu. It is the duty of our Kairakartas to create awareness on these and also enroll more people in these schemes and make them partners in our development journey. We should also think of doing beneficiary summons to enroll more and more people and make sure that the benefits reach to more people. Now, let us talk with friends from Kanyakumari. Vanakkam Kanyakumari. Bhadak! Vivekanan Rock Memorial reminds us of Swami Vivekanan and inspires. Kanyakumari is seeing a lot of infrastructure development. It has immense scope in tourism and central government is working at several sites in Kanyakumari. Well, who wants to talk? Greetings. Greetings. I am Muthu Krishnan from Kanyakumari district. Today, I got a chance to talk to you directly. I am very happy. My question is, middle class is a section which was neglected for successive governments. You have given special attention to the middle class and we are thankful for this. How do we better explain what the government has done for middle class? Greetings. Greetings, Mr. Muthu Krishnan. You have asked a good question. And this is the responsibility of the Indian People's Party. That we should convey our message to all the citizens of the society. I would love to answer this question. People from the middle class have contributed and sacrificed a lot for the country and asked nothing in return. When we requested people to give up LPG subsidy, over 1 crore people gave up their subsidy. A large number of middle class families came forward. When we requested senior citizens who can afford to let go of the rail subsidy, lakhs of senior citizens came forward. Most of these senior citizens are from the middle class. We requested doctors to do free checkups for pregnant mothers once a month and thousands of doctors are contributing. We recently launched a volunteer platform self for society for the IT sector and we are seeing huge participation by IT sector professionals. We have successfully addressed the issue of inflation which hurts the middle class most. Consistently, high inflation many times even in double digits was hurting the common citizen under the previous government. In comparison, inflation has been kept on a tight leash by our government. Just a couple of days back, the retail inflation figure came out which were only 2.3%. Now, a common man would not understand the importance of these numbers. We need to explain to them how this makes a difference in their lives. In 2010, 1 kilo of moong dal was available for 86 rupees which went up to rupees 90 in 2014. In the price rise continued at this rate. Price of moong dal could have reached 95 to 100 rupees. But you know that the price of moong dal today is only 70 to 80 rupees per kg. Similarly, in 2010, 1 kilo of moong dal was available for 50 rupees which went up to rupees 65 in 2014. If the price rise continued at this rate, prices of moong dal could have reached 80 to 85 rupees. But you know that the price of this dal today is around 60 rupees per kg. The middle class has dreams. Often, full-filling dreams needs them to access loans. The availability of loans at lower interest rates give them wings. Educational loans, home loans or automobile loans are available at much lesser rates now. The move have resulted in lower AMIs and increased saving for the common citizen. For example, the rate of interest on home loans is around 8% as compared to around 10% in November 2013 during the UPA area. Similarly, the interest on educational loans has also come down to around 10.5% from the UPA era interest rate of around 14%. The BJP government is helping home buyers with interest submersion. Interest up to 6.5% is borne by the government to help you and buy your home. If you are a person with household income up to 12 lakh rupees and you buy a home through a loan, our BJP government contributes up to 5.5 lakhs towards your home as interest submersion. Medicines are available at extremely affordable prices in more than 4,000 Jan Aushadhi Kendras, often at up to 70% less than their market price. Also, these stores are open and accessible to all the citizens of the country. Most families have members over the age of 60 and take some medicines regularly. This easily reduces the cost of medicines. Ownest tax-paying citizens are the backbone of the country as they contribute to the country for their hard-earned money. With an aim to reduce the tax burden on such citizens, multiple measures have been taken by our government. For example now, a tax-paying citizen whose annual income is 5 lakh rupees pays an income tax of only 5,200 rupees. Four years ago, the same person would have paid 18,540 rupees. Also, with the rolling out of GST, there are around 150 items that attract 0% tax and some 400 items that have taxes on them reduce. Eating out is no longer a luxury for the common citizen as it has become much cheaper now. The tax on a restaurant's bill is now a 5% GST with no other hidden taxes as opposed to the earlier range of 13-28% taxes that had to be paid. From cost of daily life commodities to health from loans to income tax, ease of living has become a feature in every citizen's life. Public service too have become people-centric and efficient. A very basic example could be getting a passport. It used to take weeks together to do this and often many would even have to travel to different cities for this purpose. However, now as compared to the earlier 77 functional passport Seva Kendra, there are more than 300 functional passport Seva Kendra. This has taken service closer to the people as well as greatly speeded up delivery. Many people have even received passports within two days. Thank you, Kanyakumari. Now we'll move to Namakal. Namakal is famous for the poultry industry and the transport industry. Well, I would like to... Yes, who wants to talk? Namaste. Namaste. Namakal district president N. P. Satyamothi. G. Most government only talk almost charity investment industry and so on. Nobody talked about a grusial sector like health care have even great imparties to the health sector. We want to know, want, deal to you so. Thank you. Friends, it is of a firm belief that a healthy India is a precondition for a prosperous India. We have seen how families were pushed into poverty due to illness of a family member. We have seen how families could not rise above poverty due to cost of health care. If we want to ensure the growth of India, we need to ensure that health care is affordable so that every poor Indian is provided the right to quality health care. We took several steps. Firstly, we opened for thousands of the centers nationwide to provide affordable medicine. Many medicines are provided at less than half their market price in these stores. Secondly, we brought down the cost of cardiac strengths and knee implants significantly. It has brought a cheer in the lives of elderly and their blessings means a lot for us. Similarly, the Pradhan Mantri National Dialysis Program providing free dialysis services for poor and subsidized services to all patients has eased lives of the patients as well as their near and dear ones. Thirdly, we made good health care. A mass movement with launch of world's largest health insurance program, Aushman Bharat. People used to say Modi care. Within less than three months, not even 100 days, within less than three months, 5 lakh people availed the schemes, get treatment totally free of cost. It is setting off a massive transformation on the ground with health no longer an obstacle. The amount of energy being focused on productivity pursues. On the ground is going to unleash a new era of change. There have been many a times when pregnant mothers and newborn children lost their lives because of lack of proper vaccination or treatment. With Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matruta Abhyan, more than 1.3 crore free checkups were done with lakhs of high risk pregnancies being identified. It helped in reaching out to the pregnant women on time and saved lives. With Mission Indra Dhanush, 3.34 crore children and 86 lakh pregnant women have been immunized. These families have been saved from years of financial and emotional distress just by simple health intervention. Future of the country has been safeguarded through these schemes. It is not just policies that are being fruit but awareness on cleanliness too has resulted in protecting the health of our children. There has been huge health impact of Swachh Bharata Abhyan. As per studies, it is not only saving thousands of rupees in healthcare but is also helping save lakhs of lives. Smoke free lives with the free LPG connections under the Ujwala Yojana too has helped aid many more healthy years to a women's life. So now we'll have to move. Let us join friends in Nilgirij. Nilgirij is glazed with a great natural beauty. The tea grown there keeps everyone refreshed. Val, who would like to talk? Thank you very much for this opportunity. I am asking you this question today. Every day, the government of Andhya is wearing shoes in the streets of India. How will we handle it? Thank you. Greetings. If you ask me what is among the most satisfying things of being in government, I would say it is to work for our hardworking farmers. After all, it is the farmers who are our Anandatas. Their well-being is a priority not just for the government but for the whole nation. Our government is the most farmer friendly government in India. Let me explain how. Four years ago, farmers asked for urea but all they got was lathi charge. Farmers asked for higher MSPs but all they got was empty promises. Farmers asked for increased incomes but all they got was insensitivity. From 2009 to 2014, the UPA government allocated 1.21 lakh crore rupees for agriculture sector. In the last four years, we have allocated 2.11 lakh crore rupees. From 2009 to 2014, 5 years, only a quantity of 7.28 lakh metric tons of pulses and oil seeds was procured at MSP. In the last four years, our government procured 93.97 lakh metric tons of pulses and oil seeds were procured at MSP. This is 13 times the quantity procured by UPA government. Overall, our government has brought about a paradigm shift and is working hard to double the farmers' incomes. This is happening by reducing their input costs, reducing wastage, ensuring fair price and for the crop and creating alternative means of income. It is for the first time that farmers' welfare is being ensured in a holistic manner starting from the seed to the market. Today, I would like to ask you about how well you know about our government schemes for farmers. Who will give me names of our schemes? Is there anyone who can say? 100% subsidy for drip irrigation. Yes. Anyone else? Name-quoted area. Name-quoted area. Rs. 300. Yes. Pusal Bhima Yojana. Pusal Bhima Yojana. Yes. Namaste Ji, Madhu Sudhanen from Goodlore Assembly Constituency. The main scheme Neelgiri District is a tea industry-based district. We appreciate the efforts by giving green cards to all the tea growers in Neelgiri, especially small growers. Thank you. There are many graphics on farmer welfare available on Namo app. Can you share them with all your friends and family? Please raise your hand. Do you understand my question? There are many graphics on farmer welfare available on Namo app. Can you share them with all your friends and family? Yes. Can we make sure all people in our booth get them? Yes. I want to answer from each and everyone. That will be a good display of showing which booth is sapsimhaj booth. Thank you. Thank you. In a historic step, the MSP has been increased to ensure that farmers get at least 150 percent of the cost of production. Did the Swaminathan Commission report not exist earlier? What step them previous government from implementing it? We have enabled our farmers to sell their produce across the country through enum and get the best market rates. More than 1.27 crore farmers and sailors are already on the platform and getting high returns for their hard work. The focus is also being devoted to cold chain projects and food parts to ensure value addition, reduce wastage and increase profits. We are not like the Congress which will only pay lip service to farmers but ignore their well-being. Whenever Congress is in power, farmers suffer. In Maharashtra, Congress was at the forefront of an integration scam. Just a few days back, a top Congress leader from Punjab who has earlier served as their PCC chief said that Congress government in Punjab is not serious about issues relating to the sugarcane farmers. I am sure you read a newspaper report that said that the Karnataka government where Congress is an integral partner had given a short of waiver scheme worth Rs.44,000 crore. Only 800 farmers got mere benefits. Is this a joke? Is this how serious they are about farmers? If there is one party that understands agriculture issues and will always hear farmers and resolve their issues, it is BJP. Friends, from Salem, I think they are waiting for us. Namaste. Namaste. Namaste. Gopinath. District President. Gopinath Ji, please speak. I would like to congratulate you on yesterday's Supreme Court verdict. This is a big blow to the campaign of ways by the opposition. I also went to give a ground feed back that I have no meat one person who is believing the opposition lies on Rafale. I want to say that one thing that starts out in our four years of governance is the focus on national security. I want to ask how this party shift came out. Thank you, Gopinath Ji. Sit down. Sit down. Ours is a government that values your safety and well-being above everything else. We will do everything possible to protect India and 130 crore Indians. When it comes to national security, the morale of the forces is important. Among the first thing that we did after coming to power, we have conveyed to the soldiers that we value them. The soldier who is standing at the border knows that the country is standing behind him. Our government has ensured operational freedom for our forces to deal with those who are harming the country. The surgical strikes show how capable our forces are to give a strong answer to those who attack us. The Maoist terror which had once affected many districts of the nation is on a decline. There has been a major crackdown against Maoists and their sympathizers. Forty-four districts which were earlier affected by left-wing terrorism show the zero incidence of violence in last four years. It has happened because on one hand there has been a sustained campaign by the security forces to fight back while on the other hand the government is making efforts to develop these regions. In Kashmir, while we have reached out to the people in full measure, the army has struck a heavy blow to terror our nations, eliminating terrorists in record numbers. Recently, panchayat Poles were conducted peacefully in the region and saw great participation. Striking terrorists where it hurt them the most has become a new normal in India's anti-terror policy. Recently you would have seen that India's pride nuclear submarine INS Arihan successfully completed its first deterrence patrol on November 5th, 2018. The success of INS Arihant enhances India's security needs. It is a major achievement for our entire nation with INS Arihant India's nuclear trade is complete. Due to its name INS Arihant will protect Indians from external states and contribute to the atmosphere of peace in the region. It was our government that had the honor to fulfill the long pending demand for one rank, one pension, OROP, that was lying unattended for 40 years. The previous government after much persuasion left mere 500 crore rupees aside for the OROP which was nothing short of a cruel joke. We got the opportunity to implement one rank, one pension which we deal with full sincerity. Sadly for Congress national security and defense sector is either a punching bag or a funding source. On one hand the leaders called the army chief names and mocked the surgical strikes. On the other hand they have looted the defense sector from the jeep scam back in the 40s and 50s to buffers in the 80s, the Augusta scam and the sub-managed scam among many others. All they see is way to make money even if it means the morale of our forces is diminished. Thankfully those days are gone. We are proud of our forces and have faith in them. We are a peace-loving nation but will not hesitate to give a fitting reply to antisocial elements who harm our people and disturb our development. Thank you friends. It was great talking to you. I really cherish my interaction with the BJP family through Meera Booth. Thank you very much.