“I have given a guarantee to my countrymen that India will be among the world’s top three economies in my next term as Prime Minister,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday while criticising the previous Congress-led governments for the failure of their poverty-alleviation programmes which were riddled with corruption.
Addressing a large crowd in Solapur, Mr. Modi’s speech expressed confidence that the Bharatiya Janata Party would win the 2024 Lok Sabha election and that he would return to power for a third term as Prime Minister.
Mr. Modi laid the foundation stones of eight AMRUT (Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation) projects in the State worth around ₹2,000 crore, and dedicated 15,000 houses of the Raynagar Housing Society in Solapur whose beneficiaries include thousands of handloom and power loom workers, rag pickers, bidi workers among others.
