Rajnath Singh hits out at Rahul Gandhi

Janjivan Bureau
New Delhi : Union home minister Rajnath Singh slammed Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi for his attack on RSS. He said opposition parties were not aware of India’s culture and character.Terming the Narendra Modi government’s one year in office as the “year of consolidation”, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said it has changed the general feeling from that of “despair to hope”.
Replying to Gandhi’s accusation that RSS was running the education system in the country, Singh said RSS’s ideology considers the whole world as a single family. “Previous governments used to run by instilling fear among Muslims while we want to move ahead by taking everyone along. We will not discriminate against anyone,” said Singh addressing a rally here.
“There are 72 different factions in Islam. Even in Islamic countries, all these factions are not living together. But you can find people of all of these factions in India. This is India’s culture,” the home minister said. He accused the Congress for “instilling fear among minorities by taking the name of RSS.”
Singh also took a dig at Rahul for his comments on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s frequent foreign tours. “Congress’ `yuvraj’ claims that our PM lives more in foreign countries than in India. I want to tell him that past PMs visited foreign countries as a political formality, while this PM goes to strengthen the nation,” he said. He also talked about how TV channels worldwide now broadcast every one of his visits.
Touching upon various aspects and the work areas of the government, the minister said “Prime Minister Narendra Modi travelling abroad and meeting various world leaders has made a lot of positive change for India”.
Elaborating on how India’s economy was speeding up, the minister said it has been made investor friendly and lots of investors are coming to India to invest in various business ventures, whereas the country was being looted during the UPA’s rule.
Criticising former prime minister Manmohan Singh, the home minister said that he was an economist but could not curb rise in prices of general commodities. People suffered during the UPA government. It failed to contain the ever rising prices of essential commodities but within one year of the NDA government the growth rate has gone up and inflation is down, Singh said while discussing the general achievements of his government.
“Manmohan Singh was ‘arthshastri’ (economist) but our Modi is ‘yathartshastri’ (practical),” he said, adding how the government scheme of ‘Jan-dhan Yojna’, through which Modi got the country’s poor connected to the banking system, was being appreciated across the world.