Flagging off Rs 75,000-crore infrastructure and development projects in Nagpur, including Mumbai’s Samriddhi Expressway and Phase-I of the Nagpur Metro, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday attacked political parties, saying they were “indulging in ‘short cuts’ in politics” and destroying the country’s economy for their “personal interests”.
Addressing a rally at MIHAN (the multi-modal international passenger and cargo hub airport in Nagpur), the prime minister called for “sustainable development and sustainable solutions” so that the country can emulate the progress charted by countries like Singapore and South Korea. He said, were once considered poor.
Modi said, “I also want to caution the people of Maharashtra and the people of the country about a distortion coming in the politics of India. This is the deformity of shortcut politics. This is the deformity of looting the country’s money for political interests. This is the deformity of looting the hard-earned money of taxpayers. These political parties who are adopting shortcuts, these political leaders are the biggest enemies of every taxpayer of the country. Those whose aim is only to come to power, whose aim is only to grab the government by making false promises, they can never build the country. Today, at a time when India is working on goals for the next 25 years, some political parties, in their personal interest, want to destroy India’s economy,” .
