Rahul Gandhi on February 5 targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi🌳 and his parliamentary speech, saying that the speech did not mention anything about Make In India.
ꦡIn a tweet, the leader of the opposition said: “Prime Minister, in your speech you didn’t even mention 'Make in India'! The PM should acknowledge that ‘Make in India’, although a good initiative, is a failure. Manufacturing has fallen from 15.3 per cent of GDP in 2014 to 12.6 per cent - the lowest in the last 60 years. India's youth desperately need jobs. No government in recent times, UPA or NDA, has been able to meet this national challenge at scale. We need a vision to address what’s holding our manufacturing sector back, and prepare it to be competitive in the global economy of the future.”
ไGandhi also highlighted that the only way to revive the manufacturing sector is to develop cutting edge manufacturing ability, and create jobs. “This vision for production in India must also have a specific focus on emergent technologies like electric motors, batteries, optics, and AI. This is the only way to revive our manufacturing sector, develop cutting edge manufacturing ability, and create the jobs we need,” Gandhi said.
ꦕHe added that China is 10 years ahead of India and has a stronger industrial system. “This is what gives them (China) the confidence to challenge us. The only way to compete effectively with them is to build our production systems and for that we need vision and strategy,” Gandhi said.
Earlier, in his parliamentary speech𒐪, PM Modi lashed out at Gandhi and other members of opposition, and alleged that some parties were fooling and betraying the youth. PM Modi said some people are openly speaking the language of urban naxals and asserted that those who "declare a war" against the Indian State can neither understand the Constitution nor about the country's unity.
