Economy: India to be among top three in ‘my third tenure,’ says PM Modi
Virendra Pandit
New Delhi: Exuding confidence of a win in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections, due by May 2024, two-term Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said India’s economy will be among the top three during his third tenure.
Addressing a public meeting in Damoh town of Madhya Pradesh, amid a campaign for the November 17 Vidhan Sabha elections, he also said he will continue to fight against corruption.
People gave power to the Congress in Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan, but their chief ministers were found involved in “satta” (betting) and generating black money, he said.
PM Modi said that after 2014, when he came to power, India’s economy climbed from the 10th to the fifth position, leaving behind the United Kingdom, which ruled the country for over 200 years.
“In 2014, when we came to power, the country’s economy was at the 10th position. Gradually it moved to 9th, 8th, 7th, and 6th but nobody was talking about it. When it reached the 5th position and left behind the UK, which ruled the nation for 200 years, everybody was surprised and started looking at India,” he said.
The PM said if the Congress comes back to power, the “85 percent commission system” will work in the states as once stated by a Prime Minister of that party.
Notably, then PM Rajiv Gandhi (1985-89) had famously said that only 15 paise of every rupee released by the Centre reached the targeted beneficiary in the states.
PM Modi also said that Congress leaders are saying they will complain to the Election Commission about his promise to extend for five years the free-ration scheme for the poor people.
“Let them do this sin, I will continue to do good work for the people,” he said.
