Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated during a public gathering in Madhya Pradesh's Damoh town, in anticipation of the state assembly elections scheduled for November 17, that in his third term as Prime Minister, he aims to propel the country into the top three global economies.
PM Modi also pledged to persist in the fight against corruption.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi pointed out that although people had entrusted power to the Congress in Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan, their chief ministers were implicated in unethical practices such as betting and the generation of illicit funds.
Modi underscored that since 2014, India's economy has ascended from the 10th to the 5th position, surpassing the United Kingdom, which had ruled India for more than two centuries.
“In 2014, when we came to power, the country’s economy was at the 10th position. Gradually it moved to 9th, 8th, 7th and 6th but nobody was talking about it. When it reached the 5th position and left behind the UK, which ruled the nation for 200 years, everybody was surprised and started looking at India,” he said.
Modi said during his third tenure as PM, he will take the country’s economy among the top three in the world.
The Lok Sabha elections are due next year.
The PM said if the Congress comes back to power, the "85 per cent commission system" will work in the states as once stated by a prime minister of that party.
Notably, former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi had said only 15 paise of every Re 1 released by the Centre reached the targeted beneficiary,
Modi also said that Congress leaders are saying they will complain to the Election Commission about his promise to extend for five years the free ration scheme for the poor people.
"Let them do this sin, I will continue to do good work for the people,” he said.
The prime minister also said he will continue to fight against corruption and asked people whether he should do so or not, to which they replied in the affirmative.
