"pot calling the kettle black"
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National General Secretary Ram Madhav came on heavily on Congress President Rahul Gandhi's 'unequal distribution of income in India' remark that came just as the Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrapped up his plenary speech at the World Economic Forum.
"That was the case earlier. Under our government, it has been ensured by the Prime Minister that the fruits of economy reaches the last person," Madhav told ANI.
Moments after PM Modi gave a keynote address at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Rahul resorted to Twitter urging the Prime Minister to let Davos know why India's one percent population receives 73 percent of the country's wealth.
"Dear PM, Welcome to Switzerland! Please tell DAVOS why 1 percent of India's population gets 73 percent of its wealth? I'm attaching a report for your ready reference," Gandhi had tweeted.
The BJP leaders promptly sprinted into action, defending the PM's speech. GVL Narsimha Rao replied to Gandhi's tweet calling it a case of "pot calling the kettle black".
"This inequality is the disastrous consequence of your family's patented Nehru Congress's 'Poverty Perpetuation' Model of Governance by which only Congressis became rich. Isn't your comment a case of pot calling the kettle black? Ulta chor kotwaal to daante!"
Rao said in the last three-and-a-half years the Modi government has tirelessly worked towards inclusive growth, and taken a number of pro-poor intiatives such as Jandhan Yojana and Ujjawala Yojana.
Earlier in the day, Prime Minister Modi addressed the plenary session of the 48th World Economic Forum meet at Davos in Switzerland.
His government, he said, was taking steps to bridge the income and opportunity divide by taking various steps. "Personally, I have always said that development process should be inclusive and encompassing," he added as he went on listing some of the steps that his government had taken.
"In India, Democracy, Demography and Dynamism are giving shape to development and destiny. We believe in progress in true sense, when everyone can walk together to achieve this," he said in his speech.
He also made a comparison between World Economic Forum meeting in 1997 and 2018.
"In 1997, India's Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda attended the WEF meeting in Davos. That forum's vision was about building of network society. Then there was no Euro; very few people knew about Osama bin Laden; Google was not invented, if someone would search Amazon on Internet then search results would throw information about rivers and forests. Tweeting was the work of birds," Prime Minister Modi said.
He added that the theme of this year's WEF is 'Creating a Shared Future in a Shared World', which means "creating shared future in a fractured world".
Modi arrived at the Palam airport here, early Wednesday morning, after attending the WEF session.
With Agency Inputs