Chidambaram's remarks an insult to our soldiers, says Modi in Bengaluru

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Karnataka's Mangaluru on Sunday morning. He offered prayers at Shri Manjunatha Swami Temple at Dharmasthala. After the temple visit, Mr. Modi proceeded to Ujire, 5 km from Dharmasthala to attend a public programme.

After addressing in Ujire, Modi reached Bengaluru where he wasreceived by Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah.

Addresing a gathering at Bengaluru's Palace grounds, Modi said that people have no expectations fro Congress party. He slammed Congress leader P Chidambaram over Kashmir remark. "Congress will have to answer for the recent statement of their leaders on Kashmir. The statement was unacceptable," said Narendra Modi at Bengaluru.

Earlier in the day, Modi addressed a public meeeting at Ujire. He said,"Be it development, education, poverty, health, Veerendra Heggade has perservered to ensure development in all.''

"Every person now is talking about skill development. In a country like India where 800 million citizens are younger than the age of 35, skill development should be a primary concern. We have the necessary manpower to fill gaps in human resource requirements around the world," said Narendra Modi at Ujire.

Modi also said,''Due to our greed, we are draining Mother Earth of her resources. We continue using pesticides, fertilisers without having a care about how the cultivated land is affected. If this continues, I don't know where we will end up. Hence, to this end, we promise to bring down urea use by half by 2022."

He would be addressing a convention of Sri Kshetra Dharmasthala Rural Development Project, where he would launch Mr. Heggade's new initiative, Safe Earth and distribute RuPay cards to SHG members of SKDRDP. He would also witness signing of an MoU between the SBI and the SKDRDP for cashless transactions of SHG members.

The Prime Minister will attend an event arranged by the Sri Kshetra Dharmasthala Rural Development Project (SKDRDP).

Modi will also visit Bengaluru and address a gathering at the Dashamah Soundarya Lahari Parayanotsava Mahasarmapane.

Later in the day, the Prime Minister will inaugurate a 110km Bidar-Kalaburgi railway track in the Hyderabad-Karnataka region The new track will provide direct rail connectivity from Bengaluru to Bidar in the state's northern region, about 690km away from the state capital.

This new track would decrease the distance between Bengaluru and New Delhi by 380km and will reduce the travel time by six to eight hours.

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