PM Modi did not name Rajiv Gandhi but alluded to the former prime minister’s remark that only 15 paise of Re 1 reaches the masses.
Varanasi: Taking on the Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Tuesday said the party that ruled for so long made no effort to plug corruption despite a former prime minister identifying the malady, while the BJP ended “85 per cent of the loot” in four-and-a-half years.
Without naming Rajiv Gandhi, he alluded to the former prime minister’s remark that only 15 paise of Re 1 reaches the masses and said Congress governments over the years did nothing to stop the leakage.
Modi said his government gave about Rs 5,80,000 crore to the people directly through various schemes.
Addressing NRIs and Indian-origin people at the inauguration of the 15th Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas convention in his parliamentary constituency Varanasi, Modi described NRIs as India’s brand ambassadors and said they were the symbols of the country’s capabilities.
The government has changed the mindset that India cannot change, he said in the presence of chief guest Mauritian Prime Minister, Pravind Jugnauth, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, Uttarakhand CM Trivendra Singh Rawat, UP Governor Ram Naik, and Minister of State for External Affairs V K Singh, among others.
Modi said India’s contribution was being recognized at the international level, especially its role with regard to environment.
Taking a swipe at the Congress, Modi said it got to know about the disease, acknowledged the disease, but neither thought about it, nor did anything in the direction of curing the ailment.
The party that ruled the country for so many years had given the system to the country, a truth that was accepted by the then prime minister. But what is regrettable is that later in its rule of 10-15 years, there was no effort made to end this loot and leakage, Modi said
The country’s middle class kept giving tax honestly and this loot of 85 per cent also continued, he said.
I also want to tell you today’s truth as well. We used technology to end this loot of 85 per cent completely, he said.
In the last four-and-a-half years about Rs 5,80,000 crore, about USD 80 billion, our government, through various schemes, has directly given to the people, transferring it in their bank accounts.The money has been given out for various purposes such as for a home to someone, for education, for scholarship, for gas cylinder, and to other such ends this amount has been given.
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Now just consider that if the country was being run through the old system, then even today from this 5,80,000 crore, about 4,50000 crore would have disappeared or leaked. If we would not have brought a change in the system then this amount would have been looted like the former prime minister had accepted that it was looted, Modi said.
This corrective measure could have been taken earlier also, but there was no intention or will, he said.
Modi said his government also identified about 7 crore fake people who existed only on paper, taking advantage of government schemes.
Just think about it, more than the population of many countries such as Britain, France, Italy, we had people who just existed on paper to take advantage of government schemes, he said.
Mauritian Premier Jugnauth, who is the chief guest for the three-day event, also spoke on the occasion.
He hailed the prime minister for India’s transformation through initiatives such as the Skill India and the Beti Bachao Beti Padhao schemes.
He also praised Modi’s global stewardship in promoting clean energy and for setting up the International Solar Alliance.
Jugnauth announced that his country will hold a Bhagwad Gita Mahotsav next month and a Bhojpuri Festival next year.
For the first time, the three-day convention is being organised from January 21 to 23 instead of January 9 to allow participants to visit the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad and attend the Republic Day parade in the national capital.
The theme of this year’s convention is ‘Role of Indian diaspora in building new India’. – PTI
Amazing strategy and thoughts . The very same people who populated India a few years back and allegedly looted India – still do the same – unfettered, with the addition of crony capitalists , runaway crony capitalists and crony caged parrots . Amazing India .
MR.P.K.SHARMA,
AS JOURNALIST YOU MUST REMEMBER THAT VERY INCEPTION OF PRAVASI BHARTIYA DEWAS WAS INVENTED ESTABLISHED MY LATE GREAT P.M. SHRI ATAL BIHARI BAJPAYIJI.
TODAY YOU R CRITICISING SHRI MODIJI IS THE FORUM CREATED BY B.J.P. AND NOT CONGRESS.
SO FAR MODIJIS TALK ABOUT CONGRESS READ EACH EVERY BHASHANS OF RAHUL GANDHI HIS MOTTO IS ONLY AND ONLY MODIJI. WHEREVER HE GOES EVEN IN DUBAI HE IS TALKING ABOUT MODIJI
BUT WHY U WILL NOTICE .? FOR THAT ONE MUST HAVE EYE AND THOUGHT POSITIVE. LIKE ” WHETHER GLASS IS HALF FULL OR HALF EMPTY” .CONTRARY TO YOU I SEE GLASS FULL.
IF YOU STRAIN OUT ACCORDING TO YOU NEGATIVE THOUGHTS AND MORE STUDY OF MODIJIS 4.5 YEARS ACHIEVMENTS . SOOOO MANY SCEMES FROM HOW CAN I ENUMERATE ITS LOOOONG LIST. GAS CYLINDERS TO TOILETS TO JANDHA N TO COVERING ALL STRATAS OF SOCIETY AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST 10% RESERVATIONS FOR ECONOMICALLY BACKWARD CLASS AND CKTIZENSHIPS TO ASSYLUM SEEKERS IN INDIA.
WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT?? IN SUCH A SHORT TIME? DID HOU EVER ASKEX RAISEX VOICE? WHAT CONGRESS HAS DONE IN LAST 60+ YEARS????
Let me say ki THETER ME BAITHE HUE KO SUB KALA HI DIKHAI DETA HE. OR CERTAIN BRAND KA CHASHMA PAHENE WALE KO SUB KALA HI DIKHAI DETA HAI?????.JAI HIND JAI BHARAT.
Prof PK Sharma,Freelance Journalist,Barnala (Punjab)
Ironic indeed !
A visionless PM running short of ideas all the time cannot think of anything else but Congress and Gandhi family !
At Varanasi NRI meet, PM should have talked of future of the nation, some positive. constructive and pragmatic
plans and policies for the betterment and advancement of the natives and pravasis !
It is non-sense and idiotic on the part of NaMo to allege Congress for siphoning crores in the past at the 15th
Pravasi Bhartiya Divas Convention at Varanasi ! He has now been in the saddle for almost quarter to five years !
What has he been doing all these years ?
Why did not he take Congress and the Gandhi family to task for what he has been alleging ? Is he not responsible
and guilty for dereliction of his duties as the Prime Minister ? It appears that NaMo has certainly soft corner and
attachment with the Gandhi family but he is in the habit of pretending that he detests the family at only Pravasi
Divas and certain such like political forums ?
Is he not blameworthy for not honouring the sacred oath of office of the Prime Minister of India he took ?
Prof PK Sharma, Freelance Journalist
Pom Anm Nest,Barnala (Punjab)
Wah Modi ji, how long you will lie ? Very bad. Nobody believe you. However you may be doing this till may 2019.
I BELIEVE HIM REST OF INDIA BELIEVES HIM ONLY FEW JUTE LICKI G GHULAMS DONT. DOESNT MATTER YOUR BELIEF HAS NO VALUE SIR. BECAUSE IF U R ONE OF THEM EVEN GODS STATEMENT ALSO YOU WOULNT BELIEVE.
JAI HIND. JAI BHARAT.