Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday launched a blistering attack on the Congress over a range of issues, while emphasising that his government had made sincere efforts to bring the poor out of poverty.
Hitting back at the opposition party which has been making frequent ‘jumla’ jibes at the BJP, the prime minister said ‘Garibi Hatao’ was the biggest jumla in the history of India. The Garibi Hatao Desh Bachao (remove poverty, save the country) slogan was first used by former prime minister Indiara Gandhi in the 1971 Lok Sabha elections.
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"Congress is very fond of one word. I want to use that word today. Their favourite word, without which they cannot live is 'jumla'... The country knows that if there was any biggest jumla in India and it was used by four generations, that jumla was - 'Garibi Hatao'. This was such a Jumla which helped them in their politics but did not improve the condition of the poor," Modi said.
The prime minister was speaking in Lok Sabha in reply to a two-day debate on the 75 years of the adoption of the Constitution.
Listing out various pro-poor steps undertaken by his government, Modi said the opposition doesn’t know what poverty is because “they have seen the poor and poverty on TV and newspapers”.
"Can someone tell, should people not even have toilets? The movement to build toilets has been started by (my) government," he said.
