Muzaffarpur: The Narendra Modi government has kept inflation firmly in check and this is the first time since 2004 that price rise is not an issue in the general elections, Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh claimed Friday. He added that the Modi government has also demonstrated that it is capable of punishing terrorists, unlike the Congress regime.
“By virtue of sound financial management and crackdown on corruption, prices have been kept under check. It is just the second occasion, since Independence, when price rise is not an election issue. The last time we witnessed this phenomenon was in 2004 when the nation went to polls under the leadership of Atal Bihar Vajpayee,” Rajnath told an election rally in Saraiya block under Vaishali Lok Sabha constituency which goes to polls on Sunday.
Above all, we have demonstrated that we are capable of punishing terrorists, unlike the previous Congress government, which raised a white flag whenever an attack took place. Our Armed Forces were given a free hand and they eliminated terrorists by attacking their hideouts across the border. We have also developed space war capability and our satellite missiles can respond to attacks within three minutes,” added Rajnath who had also served as a minister in the Vajoayee government.
Lashing out at the Congress, Rajnath said that the party ruled the country for 55 years and kept fooling the people with false promises of ‘garibi hatao’. “On the other hand, the Modi government has demonstrated its resolve to raise the living conditions of the poor,” pointed out Rajnath.
Rajnath said that since the Modi government came to power the number of cooking gas connections given far exceeded the families provided with the facility in the ‘last 64 years’. He also said that houses have been provided to 1.3 crore homeless families.
Elaborating on the Modi government’s successes in the economic sphere, Rajnath claimed that at least 7.5 crore people have been pulled out of extreme poverty in the last five years. India, which was the ninth largest economy of the world earlier, has risen to the sixth under Modi, said Rajnath and added, “It is just a matter of time when we climb to the third rank.”
