PM Modi 'adopted' Jayapur because 5 people died, except that they didn't

If there was a reason that Jayapur beat other villages as the one chosen by Prime Minister Modi for adoption, it was because the ‘deaths’ of five men. During his maiden trip to Varanasi as the country’s Prime Minister, PM Modi had ‘adopted’ Jayapur and planned to develop it.

The Times of India reported that Modi had declared during announcing his adoption plan that he wants to be with the people during an ‘hour of adversity’. He said that on the back of the news that five people have been electrocuted to death in the village.

However, he got a small fact wrong. The five people he possibly assumed were dead, are actually alive. They had been hospitalised after they were electrocuted but have recovered and very much alive.

TOI quotes one of the survivors as saying, “Shaayad main isliye bach gayi kyunki mujhe Modiji ko kaafi najdeek se dekhna tha (I possibly survived because I was destined to see Modi ji from so close).”

“I have not adopted Jayapur. I have come with a request for you to adopt me,” said Modi. Modi said that he had decided to adopt Jayapur village because right after he decided to fight the Lok Sabha elections from Varanasi constituency, he had heard that five people had died from electrocution in the village.

“A bond formed in adversity becomes a long-lived one,” Modi had said. “No other place can teach you the things a village teaches you,” said the Prime Minister as he stressed on the importance of rural development.

“For 60 years, we believed that development will take place automatically after independence, but that didn’t happen. Then we thought governments aren’t doing anything. Therefore, a division between society and government was created.”

With inputs from agencies