Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta on Tuesday announced that the government would launch 75 service projects and welfare schemes as a tribute to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, coinciding with his birthday from September 17 to October 2. This move comes while condemning derogatory remarks made against the Prime Minister and his late mother.

This year, from 17th September to 2nd October, on the birthday of PM Modi, the Delhi government will start 75 service projects, public welfare schemes, inaugurations, foundation stone laying, all those works which were pending in Delhi for years, will start all those works on the birthday of the Prime Minister,” CM Gupta said.

She criticised opposition leaders for “shaming politics” by using abusive words against the Prime Minister’s late mother, describing the new projects as a “befitting reply” to such insults.

We want to give a befitting reply to those people who are insulting such a Prime Minister who is working hard day and night for the country. I feel hurt by the statements of the opposition leaders when they comment on his late mother, abusing her. The way the two so-called princes have shamed the politics of the entire country, such abusive words were used against the mother of the Prime Minister,” she said.