Thiruvananthapuram: National President of Bharatiya Janata Party Amit Shah had hit out at Congress on Tuesday and blamed that the previous UPA government with ‘plundering’ the country through scams while asserting that the Narendra Modi government had mobilized huge revenues during its one-year rule.
Amit Shah said, “While the UPA government plundered Rs 10 lakh crore in the country in 76 scams, the present NDA government under Narendra Modi could mobilise Rs 2 lakh crore by auctioning 20 of the 230 mines and Rs one lakh crore through spectrum auctions.”
While inaugurating BJP’s ‘Secretariat siege’ as part of the party’s agitation against UDF government for alleged corruption in governance and “adjustment agitation” by CPI (M) led Opposition.
He had respond over the jibe of Congress over the frequent foreign trip of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, he said the respect received by Modi during his overseas visits was not for any particular person or BJP government, but for the people of the country.
He said, “It is not respect for a particular person or BJP government but to the 125 crore people of the country.”
Stating that India was able to improve its relations with various countries during the last one year, he said earlier when some Prime Ministers went abroad, not many used to know.
Shah also rejected the Congress criticism that the BJP was ‘anti poor’ and ‘anti farmer’ saying ‘it is a government which works for the benefit of the poor and downtrodden’.
He said, “But now, if Narendra Modi goes to US, Germany, Fiji, or Bhutan, wherever he goes, thousands throng to welcome him.”
Bureau Report
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