“Freebies won’t deliver new airport or new medical college”, PM Modi said. “If you give things for free, then how can you build airports or roads? “he questioned.
Patna: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today took a swipe at the opposition parties and cautioned against “politics of shortcuts”, saying it can “destroy” the nation.
Addressing a program in opposition-ruled Jharkhand, he said, “Stay away from politics of shortcuts… Short cut leads to short circuit”.
Targeting the strategy of many parties to offer freebies during elections and after, PM Modi, who was in Deoghar to inaugurate the AIIMS and a new airport, made it clear that opposition parties that promise to give freebies cannot build new airports or hospitals or highways in the country.
“Freebies “won’t deliver new airport or new medical college”, PM Modi said. “If you give things for free, then how can you build airports or roads? he questioned.
“Earlier, projects were announced, foundation stones were laid after two or three governments. Another two or three governments later, bricks were laid and projects saw the light of the day after several governments” Mr. Modi said.
Stressing on his model of governance Mr. Modi said “Today we have brought a work culture, a political culture, and a governance model wherein we inaugurate everything that we lay the foundation stone of.
PM Modi, however, refrained from directly attacking the Jharkhand CM.
In Jharkhand, one of the country’s most under-developed and cash-starved states, several subsidies have been announced by Chief Minister Hemant Soren, whose government is backed by the Congress and Lalu Yadav’s Rashtriya Janata Dal.
Like the Arvind Kejriwal government in Delhi, Jharkhand is providing free electricity up to 300 units, besides loan waivers for farmers, which was a key poll promise.
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