Launching an attack on the erstwhile Congress-led
United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government at the Centre, BJP MP Sudhanshu
Trivedi highlighted the difference between the state of the Indian economy of
that time and present period amid the prevailing global challenges.
Trivedi had been debating in the Rajya
Sabha on Day 2 of the ongoing Winter Session of Parliament, on Tuesday.
He said the economy was striving to go
beyond 2 per cent, which was jokingly labelled as the “Hindu rate of growth”
but now the country’s robust GDP numbers reflect the “growth rate of Hindutva”.
Addressing the Upper House, the BJP MP
said, “With respect to the Indian economy, I am being reminded of the days when
the country was under Congress rule. Our country was made fun of back in those
days and it was said, in a jocular vein, that our economy couldn’t grow beyond
2 per cent. It was ridiculed as the Hindu Growth Rate.”
Trivedi said, “However, since the
country came to be led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, our economy has been
reaching new heights. The country is on the path to progress at 7.8 per cent,
we now have the highest growth rate among all the major economies of the world.
Those who have a problem with the word ‘Hindutva’ are the same people, who were
happy with a two per cent ‘Hindu Growth Rate’. Now it is no more a ‘Hindu
Growth Rate’ but a ‘Hindutva Growth Rate’. Now, the people (who are in power)
have faith in Hindutva,” added the BJP MP.
Crediting the forward strides of the
national economy to PM Modi’s leadership, Trivedi said, “There is a tsunami in
the entire world economy in which big countries such as America and China are
struggling and those like Sri Lanka and Pakistan are battling to keep their
heads above the water. However, even in the midst of this Tsunami, the captain
of our ship Prime Minister Narendra Modi is holding us rock-steady and
resilient and leading us forward.”
Reinforcing his ‘Hindutva growth’
argument, he added Bharat’s fastest growth rate coincides with the ‘pran
prathistha’ of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya next month.
ANI
