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PM Modi tried but failed with 'Make in India' project: Rahul Gandhi in LS
Feb-03-2025

Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha (LS) Rahul Gandhi said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's 'Make in India' initiative was a good idea but it failed. 

During the LS debate on the Motion of Thanks to the President’s address, Rahul Gandhi said, ‘The Prime Minister proposed the 'Make in India' program, I think it was a good idea...The result is right in front of you, manufacturing fell from 15.3% of GDP in 2014 to 12.6% of GDP today, which is the lowest share of manufacturing in 60 years. I am not blaming the Prime Minister, it would not be fair to say that he did not try. I could say that the Prime Minister tried but he failed’.

Congress leader criticized India's inability to build a strong manufacturing base, saying, ‘Any country basically organizes two things: consumption and production. The modern way of saying organizing consumption is services, and the modern way of saying organizing production is manufacturing. But there is more to production than just manufacturing. We have, as a country, failed in organizing production.’ Gandhi also said both the NDA and UPA governments faltered in generating adequate employment.

Speaking on Chinese intervention, Rahul Gandhi said that at present the Chinese are in India but the Prime Minister has denied it, whereas the Army disagrees with the Prime Minister. Gandhi further claimed that India is 10 years behind China when it comes to data. He said, ‘There are basically four technologies driving change in mobility - electric motors, batteries, optics and on top of that, application of AI. People talk about AI but AI on its own is meaningless because it operates on data. If we look at data today, every single data that comes out of the production system is owned by China’.




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