The Narendra Modi government today celebrated its two years in office with a gala event, which had a smattering of Bollywood actors, including megastar Amitabh Bachchan where the Prime Minister vowed to root out corruption and make life easier for people “looted” for years.
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Slamming the critics who “started questioning his work” even when he had not seen my office properly, Modi said his government’s programmes are mostly for the benefit of farmers and poor people, besides ending the role of middlemen, including in jobs.
Without naming the Congress, Modi accused the opposition party of pursuing the agenda of “obstructionism” and recalled the scams and scandals that took place under the UPA governments, including in coal block allocation.
His reaction comes in response to Prime Minister Modi’s suggestion that the opposition to his government’s policies was reactionary in nature. But I want to say one thing.
“This government ensured economic development with public welfare”.
According to people familiar with the matter, the officials of the two countries are working on finalising an arrangement that could pave the way for automatic exchange of information on tax-related issues. “Modi has betrayed the country”, he said here.
“We see the Prime Minister (Modi) devoting a lot of time to Israel and the development of bilateral relations”. Mr Jaitley said, the government has provided the road connectivity in seven lakh villages in the country.
“He (Modi) had promised two crore jobs every year”.
Chidambaram had asked the Centre to pluck up courage to go for bold reforms and assured it that Congress will engage with the government if it means business.
Giving figures, the Prime Minister said about ₹36,000 crore has been saved annually by plugging leakages in various programmes and said those who were benefitting from corruption are the ones who are feeling “hurt”.
He said that he had always maintained that instead of fighting each other, India and Pakistan should together fight against poverty.
“China brazenly counters India on the global fora, while Pakistan makes the Modi government dance a dizzying spiral of U-turns”, she said.
“Modi said at his call for “GiveItUp LPG Subsidy”, about 1.13 crore well to do families have given it up”.
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He said that the BJP leaders, who opposed any hike in prices of petroleum products during the days of the UPA, have gone silent even as prices of petrol and diesel are nearing an all-time high.
