New Delhi, July 18 -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a public meeting in Motihari region of poll-bound Bihar on July 18. Hitting out at the opposition INDIA bloc, Modi said getting permanent houses was impossible during the previous government of Congress and the RJD.

The Prime Minister said that under PM Awas Yojna, we gave more houses to Bihar than to the entire populations of Norway, New Zealand, and Singapore.

Here are the top updates from Modi's address:

1-"Today, I am extremely pleased to inaugurate and lay the foundation stone for development projects worth thousands of crores of rupees from Motihari, Bihar. The NDA government is committed to the all-round development of the state."

2-"This land is the land of Champaran...