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BJP maintaining credibility, Congress becoming extinct: FM in Surat

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December 02, 2017

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is in Surat today. Addressing the media, he said Gujarat is a very important region for the Bharatiya Janata Party because ‘we have been winning and serving here more than two decades’.

“During 80s politics of social polarisation was rampant here. The region got rid of that under the BJP government and we have been constantly trying to take it on the path to development,” Jaitley told reporters in Surat.

Referring to the previous United Progressive Alliance government at the Centre, he said, “The 10 years of governance before (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi ji‘s government was the most corrupt government we have ever seen.”

“It was a leaderless government. It was said that the then PM is a PM in office but not in power,” Jaitley said.

“Foreign investments had completely stopped at a point in India. Today, we have come up by 42 positions in the World ranking of ease of doing business,” he added.

He said while the BJP has maintained its credibility, the Congress is slowly becoming extinct.

“In the 1990s, the (economic) reforms were taken under compulsion but the government under PM Modi is undertaking the reforms by conviction,” Jaitley said.

On opposition parties’ allegations of tampering with the electronic voting machine, he said, “The results haven’t been out yet and they have already started making excuses for their defeat.”

He also said that the BJP has always been seen as a ‘pro-Hindutva’ party.

“So if an original is available why one would prefer a clone?” he said, apparently referring to Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi’s temple visits in the state.(Agencies)

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