CM Narendra Modi’s monthly flying bill is Rs 26.82 lakh
CM Narendra Modi’s monthly flying bill is Rs 26.82 lakh
By our correspondent
Gandhinagar, DeshGujarat, 29 June, 2009
Active, speedy and workaholic, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi used the state’s chopper for 60 times, the state’s aircraft for 15 times and chartered plane for 29 times in 14 months between April 2008 and to May 2009!
The Gujarat state thus paid Rs 26.82 lakh per month since April 2008 to May 2009, in flying chief minister Narendra Modi. Ironically on Narendra Modi’s official website Narendramodi.in, a quote on the top says “Only those who keep walking get sweet returns…look at the sun’s perseverance – dynamic &
always on the move, never dormant…hence keep moving.”
There is almost a tradition to ask the Chief Minister and Ministers, their traveling expenditures in each session of assembly in Gujarat. The period between April 2008 and May 2009 was Lok Sabha election year and Modi was extra active in addressing range of women rallies and Gujarat golden jubilee functions across the state, for which, before code of conduct of the Lok Sabha elections applied, he frequently used government owned and government paid flying machines.
In a written reply to a question asked by Congress MLA Khumansinh Chauhan on the first day of state assembly budget session, the government of Gujarat has given detail that in hiring chartered plane for the Chief minister, expenditure of Rs 3.49 crore was incurred while state’s aircraft cost only Rs 6.41 lakh and chopper cost Rs 19.58 lakh.
In the 14 months, the state paid Rs 3.75 crore for the air traveling of the chief minister.
June 29th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Don’t you think that this money could have been saved?
June 30th, 2009 at 5:59 am
ya but he making gud money fr state
June 30th, 2009 at 6:11 am
So What does everyone want here ? that Gujarat CM should walk one place to another to sort out things ?
This is rediculous kind of allegation on CM. Before you start doing such micro-accounting of expences you need to remember what kind of chair he is sitting on. Respect his designation and give him all facilities required to do his work efficiently.
Now, you know why Indian PM can not have AirForce One like US president. Though it does not matter if he gobbles many AirForce ones as bribe without even burping.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:44 am
The good works are not carried out without any cost. The CM is flying so that he can do more in less time with benefits for the people of Gujarat. The cost of air travel is more than justified by what the CM has delivered in the time period of air travel.
For a CM like Shri Narendra Modi, who works 24X7 for people, it is necessary to fly in order to get works done quickly. He doesn’t waste time and resources.
Khumansinh Chauhan should ask the expenditure of all congress MLAs and should compare it with the people’s work done ( minus the money they put in their pocket).
The Gujarat CM,Shri Narendra Modi,deserves the aircraft like Air Force One.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:53 am
HINDU AND GUJARATI : I AGREE WITH YOU. THIS MEDIA AND CONGRESS HAVE NOTHING TO DO THAN MONITOR MODI’S LIFE.HOW MANY GOV. OFFICER’S ARE USING GOV. CARS OF TAXPAYERS MONEY. CERTAIN THINGS GO WITH THE JOB. MAIN THING IS THEY CANNOT STAND HIS PERSONALITY,WORK AND IDEALS THAT ARE KEEPING THEM FROM BRIBING AND CORRUPTION.SO LOOK FOR SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING. I HOPE THEY KEEP TRACK OF OTHERS TOO.AT LEAST HIS EXPENSES ARE NOT WASTED. 100 RUPEES HE USES HE BRINGS IN 1000. HOPE NEXT TIME HE USES 10 TIMES MORE. THEY SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF TALKING THIS KIND OF CHEAP THINGS. HE IS THE ONLY ONE I HAVE SEEN IN 60 YEARS WHO HAS USED PPL’S MONEY WISELY. PROUD OF HIM. WISH PERSON LIKE HAD RULED NOT ONLY GUJARAT BUT INDIA FOR LAST 60 YEAR AND KEPT INDIA’S FAME ALL OVER THE UNIVERSE.
SOHAMBHAI: WHAT BETTER THINGS?????????? HE IS DOING THE BEST OF ALL ANYWAY.
June 30th, 2009 at 11:17 am
Dear JP
Are you becoming ally of CNN-IBNs and NDTVs ? It smells that JP, one upon time, never tired of admiring narendra modi and now, wind is going another way. Why are you reporting now? Everybody knows that high authority needs to manage time and have to travel a lot. Why don’t you write about Congressmens expenditures including central govt. ? Pls JP don’t get biased. I atleast see one good reporter in you. To be honest, after reporting this you have given rare and good opportunity to Congress to bark. I agree with Mr.Gujarati.
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June 30th, 2009 at 11:55 am
I did not say that he should walk from one place to another. The expenditure could have been cut down not made zero. Everybody knows that there will be some expenses attached with every work.
Also we have to add attached expenses like security, ‘Kafla’ of others.
Everybody is human being not God. One can not blindly praise anybody. We love our kids but don’t we point out their mistakes? Similarly we love Namo, but real love is – we should point out his shortcomings, mistakes – whatever you say.
June 30th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
PLEASE LET US ALL NOT ARGUE ON THIS ISSUE. THERE IS LOT MORE MONEY SPENT MY SONIA MADAM AND HER CONGI.”CHAMACHAS”. MEDIA WANTS THIS KIND NEWS , SO COMMON PERSON FORGETS OTHER IMPORTANT PROBLEMS.. IN DEMOCRACY NO MATTER WHO DOES WHATVER, SOMEONE WILL NOT LIKE THAT.. THERE ARE LOT MORE IMPORTANT ISSUES THAN WORRYING ABOUT MR. MODI TAKING FLIGHTS. INDIAN MEDIA IS PURCHASED, COURREPT. THERE ARE BIGGER PROBLEM THAN THIS… THANK YOU… MR. MODI I AM PROUD OF YOU…
June 30th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
Compare the travel expenses of other CMs and then these Congressis should comment about Narendra Modi.
A person may need to travel depending what kind of work he does and what kind of post he/she holds. If the reason for each air travel is justified, then there is no problem.
Yes, if someone is using the government money for their own good, then action must be taken but here it is not the case. So don’t argue. It is just a news. No big deal about it.
I would also agree with Soham. We all love Narendra Modi but it does not mean that we should not even do constructive criticism. If everyone feels that he is doing something wrong, we must point out his mistakes. Because Na.Mo. himself says that he is a CM and CM means Common Man and he always talks about Sada Paanch Karod Gujarati. If he considers himself as a Common Man speaking for all Gujaratis, he should be open to criticism too.
So chill out friends. Just consider it a news and let Jp to continue his good work.
July 1st, 2009 at 12:16 pm
This website is anti nation, anti-secularism website.
Guj is most notorious state for communal & this website shows the mental sickness of Gujarati Hindus.
I am just visiting website to know what propaganda they have in their mind against muslim. The ppl giving comments all are Gujaratis & they anti-gandhiji, anti-cong, anti-muslim, anti-secularism. In short they are anti nation.
Ppl with weak thought should not visit this websit. By visiting this website, any person of weak thought can think that the ppl giving comments are person of knowledge but they all are fool.
They have not seen the world except Gujarat.
July 1st, 2009 at 1:27 pm
“Maari-maari ne Miya banel” so calaled bharatputra – you are so right in your comment above, the readers of this sights are anti-secularist and alll the anti-you claimed because they have learned the lesons from Islams histroy of last 1000 years in india and around the world. Islam is totaiterian weapon used by abrahameic devils to establish their empire just like what romans did leveraging christianity.
Now if you want to prove to all of bharatiyas that you are real bharatputra than give up the islam which terrorised and tortured your forefathers of their native religon few centruries agon and reclaim the honor of being ‘bharatputra’.
July 1st, 2009 at 1:38 pm
How do you define Secular (Sickular)?
1. Personal laws based on religion
2. Special facilities for Haj Yatris (Now no police verification for them)
3. For benefits – special personal law but for punishment of some crime – common IPC.
4. Giving legal status to illegal Bangladeshi intruders
The list can be extended.
Yes my brother, the world is very big not just Nehru/Gandhi family.
Jay Ho/Bhay Ho
July 1st, 2009 at 2:00 pm
bharatputra,
Before giving opinions about whole Gujarat and Gujarati people, Do a bit of research on yourself as well. That will give you idea which sperm created a moron like you.
May be we have not seen the world, but we have seen our past and we know our history.
Accroding to your own theory, you should be the first person who should stop visiting this website as you have got the weakest thought. GoodBye bharatmutra!
July 1st, 2009 at 5:22 pm
mr. or mrs or ms soham (sorry, I do not know yr gender)
I am not talking about all Indians. I am talking abt Gujaratis commenting on ‘DESHGUJARAT’. For a Muslim, after Makkah & Madina, according to me India is the best place to live in.
-Muslim personal law is O.K. We Indians proud for this law. It is the symbol of pluralistic society of India.
-we do not want Haj subsidies. Politicians are politicising this matter. Air India is charging high airfare & then
returning it as subsidies.
- we want death penalty to rapist. Can yr modiji will punish rapist of Surat?
-we do not want reservation in job. Select us on MERIT. Don’t avoid to call for interview by reading Muslim name on application for job. reservation is danger for pluralistic society.
-let yr modiji develope Muslim villages of Bharuch district. For him developement of Hindu villages is the difination of DEVELOPED GUJARAT. Muslims need more school in their villages, more teachers in their schools. Just to show on TV, modiji is going to school to teach in front of TV camera. haaaaa…….
July 1st, 2009 at 8:02 pm
I agree with you, Real Bhartiya. In general Muslim community is backward in general everywhere. But are they themselves not responsible partly for that? Why they vote ppl who have been backed in Mosques? Why do they send their children to Madresa only? Let them send their children to normal public schools and if they want to give religious teaching to the kids let it be extra. Modern education is very much essential for economic uplift. Too large family also is one reason for poverty and illiteracy. (This is true regardless of religion). But why do I see 5-7 children in a Muslim family in general? Do you think that with low income, they would be able to give enough attention to develop the kids?
Why are you saying ‘Your Modiji’? He is ‘our Modiji’. This is democracy. Once a CM (or for that matter PM, MP, MLA) is elected, he/she becomes Chief Minister of that region not just for those who have voted for him/her. For that I would like to point out two incidents of recent USA election. When Obama was took oath, he thanked Bush for taking care of the nation during his tenure. They are from different political parties. I do not think this will happen in India. Another thing Hillary Clinton was a competitor of Obama for Democratic party candidate. Obama was selected and when he became president, Hillary joined his cabinet. Such things are not possible in Indian politics in near future at least.
If Muslims do not want Haj subsidy, why don’t they refuse? If they are not in favor of reservation why nobody has said in open? Let’s see what happens to Surat rapists. It seems they were in contact with Pakistan and Somalia ppl. And the case is under investigation. How can NaMo punish Surat rapists? He is not court. And as such Indian law is so slow that it takes years to punish Afzal Guru and will take years to punish Kasab.
July 1st, 2009 at 9:24 pm
I am from andhra pradesh. But, i am regular visitor of this site.
It seems only gujaratis realised current situation prevailing in india. Thats why, they made up their mind. But thats not sufficient. Educate rest of india. Just imagine, had vallabhai patel not there, nehru would have made mess out of whole of the country(not just china debacle,kashmir problem). Again, your services are required now for whole of india as phony intellectuals, pseudo secular politicians, intolerant conversionists, jihadists and anti-india propagondists with hidden agenda(media like CNN-IBN,NDTV, etc..) are moving around.
JP, any plans of expanding your network into rest of india. Build a multi lingual portal. Atleast online portal is sufficient, if not dialy news paper(hard copy). We desperately need media that tells truth. I talked to many people. All are telling the same thing that media in india is bought and not shelving truth without bias.
@bharatputra, real bharatiya,
come back your ancestral religion, then we can talk about everything.
@real bharatiya
During the islam persecution days, many people changed their religion to islam. 95% of pakistanis,99.99% bangladeshis, 99.99%indians are all converts. See, how they hate us now.
Regarding secular values,
Andhra pradesh govt is giving 5% reservations to muslims alone. For what, killing,plundering our ancestors. Now, they want more.
All hindu temples only(not mosques,churches) are under governement and when distributing money for religious activities, lions share is taken by mosques(50%), churches(20%)… Is this secularism.
i can go on and on..
Once again i am reiterating..”India is only for those who thinks this land is their janma bhoomi and karma bhoomi”.
July 1st, 2009 at 9:45 pm
Real Bhartiya u r Real Paki shut u and go away frm dis website go to pakistan man !!!!
August 6th, 2009 at 7:29 am
bharatputra,
I think you are not an Indian, cause if you are an Indian than you never said like this. You must be Pakistani.
and As per your kind information you are wrong, cause today’s time all Indian thinking only that if i was born in Gujarat. so, never say again like this.
And if you don’t like this web site or Gujarat that stop shouting that i am leaving this web site cause we are not depend on you and all Gujarati are not depend on you. if you make any comment against Gujarat than you will be in big Trouble, ask that person who made comments against Gujarat and Gujarati, i should not write his name her cause they alls are celebrity.
August 6th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
It would be better if some research was done and comparison done with other CM’s as well. Also, if the comparison was done with previous 5 years. The year reported was ver active.
I dont know why bharatputras comments were not moderated. It made no sense. such comments must be discouraged just by not posting them on this website. He is welcome to write on ndtv, cnn-ibn etc. In a few months bharatputra would probably get a padmashri.