The Prime Minister also spoke about scrapping of about 1200 “obsolete” laws and doing away with the requirement of interview for Class III and IV government jobs.
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“Wherever Congress committed corruption, we started a new chapter of success”.
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh will be the choice of Narendra Modi to lead BJP’s campaign for the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. Listing various incidents of malpractice and corruption which the Government came across while initiating measures like direct benefit transfers through Aadhar cards and bank accounts, the PM said he will strive harder in the coming three years to wipe out corruption.
The ministry said that the India-US bilateral strategic partnership has developed strongly, particularly during the last two years under Modi and Obama.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has said that Pakistan should stop “supporting state or non-state terrorism” if it wanted better ties with India, NDTV reported on Friday. “I have an enormous task ahead for myself”, Modi said in Hindi.
“As I have said from the ramparts of Red Fort that I am not a prime minister, but a pradhan sewak of the 1.25 billion people of India, so I work non-stop to fulfil the aspirations of the poor and marginalised people of society”, he said.
Mr Modi said the invitation “is a matter of pride for me”, adding that it would be an “opportunity for me to address the American people”. We are leaving no stone unturned.
“The previous government had made gas cylinders a property of the rich, something that poor people couldn’t even dream of”, he said.
Expressing gratitude to 1.13 crore consumers across the country for surrendering cooking gas subsidy till date, Modi said there was a dramatic change in the mindset of the people, as evident from the overwhelming response to his appeal for this goal.
On rural electrification, Modi said two years ago, 18,000 villages didn’t have electricity and he had given his government a period of 1,000 days to deliver.
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Announcing that the retirement age of doctors employed by the government would be raised to 65 years, he said: “There is a shortage of doctors. We will continue to work for the people of the country and seek their blessing”, he said. India and Switzerland are working “very closely” on sharing of information related to tax matters on suspected illicit money cases, a top Swiss official had said earlier.
