iFreePress Bringing News on Time Every Time Modi also asserted that his government had succeeded in ushering in “acche din” for the country during its one year in office and took a jibe at those who were ridiculing the achievements of the NDA regime. “Our government is here for five years and we can’t do anything without consulting the people concerned”. “The government was stunned and the nation was desperate and disappointed. Everyone knows who were the beneficiaries - some chosen industrialists and contractors”. “I felt anguished…it appears as if a series of national disasters have started”, Mr. Modi had said at the outset.
Our Constitution guarantees religious freedom to every citizen and that is not negotiable, he added.
Rejecting the charge of crony capitalism levelled against the Modi government, he said that it was Congress which indulged in corruption to favor a few business houses. There was policy paralysis in the government and the country.
“His bhaashans (speeches) have a timeline”.
The Prime Minister also spoke of the recent launch of three social major security schemes for the poor, saying that over 8.5 crore people have joined the schemes within 20 days of their launch.
He was asked why he had not visited Pakistan so far despite his strong advocacy for an outreach to neighborhood and whether this deadlock could end in the near future. There was no other problem.
Lauding the services of the defense personnel, he said he could understand their problems as he was talking to them “as an individual rather than as a Prime Minister”. But Congress party has repeatedly accused the Prime Minister of stealing farmers’ land under a new land acquisition bill. “We have made changes only in response to demands of the states. My position on this is very clear: Sab ka saath, sab ka vikas (taking everyone along, development for all)”, Modi said in an interview to news agency UNI.
