Congress-free India essentially means corruption-free India: BJP

Siddharth Nath Singh of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has said that Karnataka was an important State for his party in its work to make India Congress-free. He was interacting with media representatives at Yermarus Circuit House here on Tuesday.

“To accomplish Congress-free India, the goal set by party chief Amit Shah, Karnataka is an important State to work in, as it is the only State where the Congress still has some support. It is the source of funding for the Congress’ corruption at the national level. Congress-free India essentially means corruption-free India and we are making serious attempts to dislodge the Congress from Karnataka, with the help of people,” he said. He criticised Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, president and vice-president, respectively of AICC, for shedding crocodile tears vis-à-vis the plight of the poor farmers.

“Whenever farmer suicide is reported, Ms. Sonia Gandhi and Mr. Rahul Gandhi shed crocodile tears. I don’t say that such suicides have stopped after the BJP-led NDA government assumed power at the Centre. But, we have come up with concrete programmes that could mitigate the agrarian crisis and minimise farmer suicide,” he said.

Most sought-after

Hansraj Gangaram Ahir, Union Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilizer, claimed that India had become one of the most sought-after investment destination in the world after the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, came to power at the Centre.

“We are determined to make India self-sufficient by increasing domestic production. To achieve this goal, we have integrated skill development with education for which a Ministry has been established. This would naturally result in development of skilled manpower in a large scale. We may not be able to provide employment opportunities to all these skilled labour force as we have limited capital resources. To fill this gap, Mr. Modi is visiting several countries inviting investments from across the globe. It is because of his efforts that India has become a most sought-after investment destination in the world,” he said.

The Minister said that the increase in foreign direct investment in India would automatically result in rapid industrialisation and employment generation for domestic skilled labour.

“India produces 3,60,000 cotton bales a year, of which 2,50,000 bales are processed domestically for various industries. The remaining 1,10,000 bales are exported. We want the entire raw cotton to be processed domestically. Sill Development and Make In India are two important initiatives towards achieving this goal,” he said.