Banswara, Sept. 26 -- Increasing power production is necessary for any country to develop rapidly in the 21st century, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Thursday, accusing the previous Congress government of ignoring the importance of electricity. Addressing a public meeting in Rajasthan's Banswara district, where he laid foundation for a nuclear power project to be built at a cost of Rs.42,000 crore, Modi said before 2014, there were 25 million households in India that did not have electricity connection. "Even after 70 years of Independence, electricity poles had not even been installed in 18,000 villages across the country," he said. "The Congress government did not pay any attention to the importance of electricity." He added: "Any country that aims to develop rapidly in the 21st century must increase its electricity production. The most successful countries will be those that lead in clean energy." The BJP-led Union government is advancing the clean energy campaign by turning it into a people's movement, the prime minister said. Modi laid the foundation for and inaugurated several projects worth Rs.1,22,100 crore during the event in Banswara....