Though born in poverty, Modi never harboured any negativity: Shah

Vadnagar: Despite being born into poverty, Prime Minister Narendra Modi never harboured any negativity and transformed his impoverishment into compassion for the needy, working strenuously for people's welfare, Union home minister Amit Shah said on Thursday. Shah was speaking at the ceremony inaugurating multi-crore projects in Vadnagar, including an experiential museum, Prerna Centre and a sports complex.
"In psychology, it is taught that a child whose childhood is spent in poverty and deprivation is driven by negativity. Such children also develop destructive thinking and grow up with a feeling of revenge. But Modiji, born in a poor tea-seller's family, transformed his poverty into compassion for the needy people," opined the senior BJP leader.
"When that poor child took over the reins of the state (Gujarat as chief minister) and then the country, he never harboured any negativity in his mind. He worked for the welfare of the poor in the entire country to ensure no other child has to face the kind of poverty he faced," said Shah.
Shah elaborated on the efforts by PM Modi when he was the CM and said that he managed to reduce the school dropout ratio from 37% to 1% during his tenure and also launched drives to enrol girl children in schools. He added that many BJP workers, including himself, used to wonder how Modi's dream of cultural revival and nationalism of India would become a reality. But over the years, a temple for ‘Ram Lalla' and the abrogation of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir became a reality, he added. Shah also credited Modi with the new approach to foreign diplomacy where ‘India speaks eye to eye with all'.