‘Only 15 paise of Re 1 reached people but…’: PM Narendra Modi slams Congress in Germany

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday slammed Congress as he yet again highlighted that his BJP government was making sure that maximum benefits were reaching the country’s people. 

This comment comes when PM Modi was on a three-nation Europe visit with Germany.

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“Woh kaunsa panja tha jo 85 paise ghis leta tha (which palm was it that used to take away 85 paise),” PM Modi said as he addressed a 1,600 plus crowd of Indian community members.

PM Modi was referring to former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi’s remarks, which has also been cited by the Supreme Court in the past, that only a small fraction of what the country earned reached people’s pockets.

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This comment has been cited by the BJP several times to highlight its achievement of making sure that people benefit from the country’s development.

In the last eight years, PM Modi said, “The government has transferred more than Rs 22 lakh crore to beneficiaries through direct benefit transfer.”

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“The way technology is being included in governance in India shows the new political will of the new India as well as is the proof of democracy’s delivery capacity,” he underlined.

“New India no longer just thinks of a secure future, but takes risks, innovates, incubates. I remember, around 2014, there used to be only 200-400 startups in our country. Today there are more than 68 thousand start-ups, dozens of unicorns,” he added.

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PM Modi kickstarted his three-nation Europe visit with Germany on Monday. He is set to visit Denmark on Tuesday, and then he will head to France.