Addressing a public event in Rewa, Modi said, "Earlier governments hesitated to spend money for villages as they were not a vote bank in themselves. That is why they were ignored. Many political parties were running their ‘shops' by dividing village folks.”
National Panchayati Raj Day is observed in India on April 24 every year to mark the constitutional amendment that created the Panchayati Raj Institutions
Coming into force with the Constitution (73rd Amendment) Act, 1992, the panchayati raj lies in grassroots democracy, local governance, inclusive and economic development, transparency and accountability.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday remembered his father Rajiv Gandhi on National Panchayati Raj Day and said that the initiative of the former Prime Minister has to be strengthened.