Staying away from vote-bank politics; working for progress

BROUGHT TRUST BACK IN GOVT: PM MODI

Hitting out at earlier governments for bringing in schemes to please vote-bank, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said his government's purpose was miles away from vote-bank politics and it was moving ahead with the mantra of progress of the people, by the people and for the people.

Delivering the keynote address at the HT Leadership Summit, the prime minister said the biggest harm caused by the politics of vote-bank that earlier governments indulged in was that the scope of imbalanced inequality in the country kept increasing. He asserted that his dispensation had restored the faith of the people in the government. Recalling the period of 90s when India had five elections in 10 years, Modi said there was so much instability in the country.

"Experts, people writing in newspapers, had predicted that India will have to live like this, everything will go on like this in India. But the citizens of India have once again proved such experts wrong," he said.

Noting that uncertainty and instability are being discussed and seen all around the world with many countries witnessing change of governments in every election, Modi pointed out that at such a time, the people of India have chosen his government for the third time.

"Earlier we used to often hear the phrase 'good economics is bad politics. People known as experts used to promote it a lot.