'Make in India has failed' says Rahul Gandhi during Motion of Thanks Address

Neither the UPA government nor the NDA government has given a clear-cut answer to youth unemployment. I don't think anybody will disagree with that," Rahul Gandhi stated

Rahul Gandhi

Rahul Gandhi (ANI)

New Delhi: Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday claimed that the Make in India initiative has failed.Rahul Gandhi was speaking in the Lok Sabha during the Motion of Thanks (MoT) on the President's address.

'The President address was almost the same'
He stated that he did not find anything new in the Presidential address delivered at the inauguration of the Budget session.
"I heard the President's address. I sat there with Kharge Ji, and I listened to it. I must say, I struggled through the President's address to maintain my attention on what was being said because I had heard pretty much the same Presidential address last time, the time before that, and the time before that," Rahul Gandhi said.

'This is not the type of address one should delivered'
"It was the same list of things the government has done. 'We've done this, we've done that'... 50 or 100 things the government has done," he added."I was sitting there thinking, 'Okay, I'm being critical of what is being said. I'm saying that this is not the type of address that should be delivered.' Then a question came to my mind: What type of Presidential address should be delivered, and how would that address be different from what we heard?" he further suggested.

'Youth will decide the future of the country'
Rahul Gandhi emphasised the need to focus on the country's production in his address, saying, "Today, I would lay out some dimensions of what an alternative address would look like, what the INDIA bloc would probably focus on, and where we would lay emphasis. The future of the country will be decided by the youth of the country.

'No Govt has ever given a clear cut answer to the Youth'
"So, I think anything we say has to address them. The first thing in front of us that the PM would accept, and everyone in this room would accept, is that we have grown fast; we are growing now, but we are still growing. A universal problem we have faced is that we have not been able to tackle the problem of unemployment," he added.

'PM opposed the Make in India Program'
"Neither the UPA government nor the NDA government has given a clear-cut answer to youth unemployment. I don't think anybody will disagree with that," Rahul Gandhi stated.He pointed out that the share of production in the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) has decreased from 15.3 per cent in 2014 to 12.6 per cent in 2025.

'Manufacturing Industry saw the maximum loss'
"The PM proposed the Make in India program. I think it was a good idea; we saw the statue, we saw the logo, we saw the investment, and the result is right in front of you. Manufacturing fell from 15.3 per cent of GDP in 2014 to 12.6 per cent of GDP today. That is the lowest share of manufacturing in history," he stated.

 

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