New Delhi, Jun 17: Claiming that bad days are here, Congress on Monday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi was creating an alibi by blaming the UPA for leaving behind a poor economy because he did not want to fulfill his election promises.
The party said "good days might have come for Modi and BJP but bad days have begun for the countrymen".
Two days after Modi urged people to be prepared for harsh measures because the economy was in a shambles, AICC spokesman Shaktisinh Gohil said the claims were contrary to what the PM had said in praise of India as chief minister of Gujarat last year.
"Modi had praised India, China and Brazil for stroking the engine of global economy in 2012 while slamming the developed world for recession. How has the economy become bad after coming to power," Gohil asked, producing a copy of the "socio-economic review of Gujarat" in 2013.
He said the U-turn on economy was Modi's way of creating an excuse for not fulfilling the promises he made to people during the elections.
"They showed beautiful dreams to the people but they will not fulfill their pledges. So, they have started to blame the Congress," he said.
Gohil said Congress had inherited a poor economy in 1991 when even the country's gold was mortgaged abroad but the party did not blame anyone for it and also did not ask for 10 years to resolve the problem as Modi is seeking. "We just put the economy on track and in less time," he said.
Questioning the claims made by the PM, Congress said the UPA had given higher growth rate of 7.6% than 5.9% of NDA. "The per capita income that was marked at Rs 24,000 during the NDA rule has gone up to Rs 69,000 under the UPA government," the AICC spokesman said.
Congress said exports had gone up $250 billion in the last 10 years despite global trade contracting by 7-12% during the recession.
Comments
Add new comment