New Delhi. Union Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, targeting Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, said that the Congress party is making fabricated allegations using false and fake data. Responding to Kharge’s claims in several posts on social media platform ‘X’, Puri cited statistics and said the Modi government’s inclusive development policies will make the country a developed nation by 2047. Earlier on Friday, Kharge had posted on ‘X’ targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying, “Lies, deceit, fraud, loot and propaganda are the five adjectives that best describe your government!”
He had asked Modi questions on “promise of two crore jobs per year, inflation, demonetisation and flawed-GST, electoral bonds, charges against SEBI chief, crimes against SC/ST and India’s poor ranking on the Global Hunger Index”. . In response, Puri said, “It seems that the Congress party and Kharge are unaware of the changes that have improved the lives of Indians.” Puri said that the Modi government has lifted more than 24 crore Indians out of multidimensional poverty.
This includes construction of more than 11 crore toilets, 12 crore tap water connections, more than 10 crore free cooking gas connections, healthcare services, 51 crore bank accounts, three-fold increase in capital expenditure and policies like GST, Startup India, IBC and PLI scheme. Reforms have helped. He said, “We ensured that petrol and diesel prices did not increase even when international benchmark prices increased by 40 to 70 per cent, while oil prices worth Rs 1.41 lakh crore increased during the Congress-led UPA-2 government. “Due to their stupidity in issuing bonds, the country was forced to return Rs 3.2 lakh crore in return.” The Union Minister said that India is showing that it will achieve its development goals by 2047.