Uttar Pradesh elections | PM Modi in Hardoi: 'Son of a poor mother became the PM because of the blessings of UP'

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday addressed an election rally in Uttar Pradesh's Hardoi district. Launching a scathing attack on Samajwadi Party government in the state, PM Modi said that UP ranks number one in political murder.

Here are the highlights:

#2:15PM: PM Modi ends his speech

#Notes ban has hit the curropt hard, those who looted the poor for 70 years will now have to return their money

#I allocated funds for providing electricity to homes, but Akhilesh failed in doing the required from his end

#We have provided more than 20 crore LED bulbs to homes, we have provided 1.5 lakh LED bulbs in Hardoi district

#I reduced the rate of LED bulb and thus saved the electricity bill of middle-class and the poor

#The adopted son of UP reduced the rate of fertiliser. This was never done for 70 years. This saved Rs 5000 crore for the farmers and this happened for the second time after Chaudhary Charan Singh

#The adopted son of UP promises you that he will waive-off farmer's loan after forming government in UP

#The 'Vishwakarma Board' has been set up for the deprived

#Only 14% farmers received the benefit of 'Bima Yojna'

#BJP's manifesto proposes to provide employment to youths

#UP alone registers 50% cases related to Arms act. If unregistered cases are included no other state will even be at 100th position

#If BJP forms govt in UP, will take the decision to waive-off farmer's loan in first cabinet meeting

#The situation in UP due to the failure of the state government is such that we need to work to overcome this

#The SP government is only concerned about their family, but for us, the entire state is a family

#The law and order situation is worse in UP, we need to save the state from 'gundagardi'

#Can any political party's office be at police stations? Police take permission from SP workers to lodge a case

#Sabse zyada desh mein hatyain Uttar Pradesh mein hoti hain. Ab ye unka kaam bolta hai ya kaarnama bolta hai? (UP ranks number one in political murder)

#A son of a poor mother became the PM because of the blessings of Uttar Pradesh

#We need to change the fate of Uttar Pradesh

#If Uttar Pradesh and Bihar are free of poverty, it means the country is free from poverty

#The country cannot grow without the growth and development of Uttar Pradesh

#SP, Congress - they never thought about the bigger picture. All they did was to serve a select few guided by political calculations

#This huge field of Hardoi appears small today, I can see a sea of saffron

#1:15PM: PM Modi begins his speech