“Congress is corrupt, India did not thrive below its rule”: PM Modi

New Delhi, Feb 16: In a pointy assault on the Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi acknowledged that India did not ship below the “corrupt” rule of the grand previous occasion whereas asserting that the “nation is shifting ahead with confidence.”

“Congress is corrupt; it will probably’t consider a future; India did not thrive below Congress,” the PM mentioned forward of the Lok Sabha elections due in April-Could this yr.

PM Modi was addressing a ‘Viksit Bharat Viksit Rajasthan’ programme through video conferencing.

Lashing out at Congress, the PM additional mentioned, “After independence, as we speak this golden interval has come. India has this chance to depart behind all of the disappointments from 10 years in the past. India is shifting ahead now with confidence. Earlier than 2014, there was once solely discussions of scams and bombings. Individuals in India used to marvel what would occur to them and to the nation. Throughout the Congress regime, this was the ambiance…”

“Congress has just one agenda, anti-Modi, excessive anti-Modi. They unfold such issues in opposition to Modi, which divide the society. When a celebration will get trapped within the vicious circle of nepotism and dynasty politics, the identical factor occurs to it. Right this moment everyone seems to be leaving Congress, just one household is seen there” PM Modi added.

He additionally expressed gratitude to the folks of Rajasthan for giving a grand welcome to the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, who was the chief visitor on the Republic Day celebrations on January 26.

Hitting on the earlier Congress authorities in Rajasthan, the PM mentioned, “Throughout the regime of the earlier authorities in Rajasthan, there was once frequent paper leaks, and youth used to get affected by this. To analyze this, an Particular Investigation Group was shaped as quickly because the BJP got here to energy. The Central Authorities has shaped a stringent regulation in opposition to those that bask in paper leaks…”

“A number of folks from each Meeting of Rajasthan have joined this necessary program, I congratulate all of you… Just a few days in the past, the grand welcome you gave to the President of France in Jaipur echoed all through India and France…,” PM mentioned.

Throughout the programme, Prime Minister inaugurated and laid the muse stone of a number of improvement initiatives price over Rs 17,000 crore.

The initiatives cater to a number of necessary sectors together with Roads, Railways, Photo voltaic Vitality, Energy Transmission, Ingesting water and Petroleum and Pure Gasoline,as per a press release from Prime Minister’s Workplace.

The programme was organised at about 200 locations throughout all districts of Rajasthan, with the principle programme held at Jaipur. The state-wide programme witnessed the participation of lakhs of beneficiaries of varied authorities schemes. The programme was even be joined by Chief Minister Rajasthan, different Ministers of Rajasthan Authorities, MPs, MLAs and local-level representatives.