‘India first, always,’ says PM Modi on four years in office

As the Bjp-led government at the centre completes four years in office, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said for him and his party “it is always India First”.

Stressing that development over the last four years has become a “vibrant mass movement”, PM Modi said, “every citizen feeling involved in India’s growth trajectory. 125 crore Indians are taking India to great heights!”

PM Modi in a series of tweets, highlighted the achievement of his government in the last four years. “Over the last four years, development has become a vibrant mass movement, with every citizen feeling involved in India’s growth trajectory, 125 crore Indians are taking India to great heights!” Modi said in a series of tweets.

At a rally in Odisha on Saturday, the PM said people of the country are watching how this government’s fight against black money and corruption had turned hardcore enemies into friends. It made many come together and stand on the same stage, those accused in big scams are uniting now.

They are coming together to save their families, not to save the country.

During a press conference on Saturday Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah also listed the achievements of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government on its fourth anniversary, Shah said.

He said that with the 2016 surgical strikes conducted across the Line of Control (LOC), the government exhibited its political willingness to take on the country’s adversaries.

“Prime Minister Narendra Modi has ended politics of appeasement, dynasty and casteism, and ushered politics of development,” Shah said.

The BJP president said the government has also resolved the longpending issue of One Rank One Pension within a year of coming to power.

He also said that the government took several measures such as the constitution of a special investigation team (SIT) to curb black money. The black money issue was one of the central poll planks of the BJP during the 2014 election campaign.

Union Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday also launched a blistering attack on Congress and “maverick and temperamental” leaders of regional parties like TMC, DMK and BSP, and said the debate in the year to 2019 general elections would be ‘Modi versus an anarchist combination’.

From his hospital bed, where he is recuperating after a kidney transplant, Jaitley in a Facebook post said that the electoral prospects of the Congress are narrowing with the party is shrinking to a fringe.