NEW DELHI: Congress today sought to take the sheen out of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s frequent foreign tours, alleging India’s exports have dropped by a whopping 45 per cent despite him completing 30 foreign visits during his 18-month tenure.
The party also took a jibe at the Prime Minister over the issue of price rise and said his Government has “in one stroke taken away carbohydrate, protein, vitamin and fat from the plates of the common man”.
“After 30 foreign visits and another four lined-up, all that Modi has achieved for the nation during his 18 months tenure is a whopping drop of 44.89 per cent in Indian exports, from 280 billion dollars in May 2014 to 154 billion dollars today,” Congress spokesman Abhishek Singhvi told reporters.
He said that despite “all the hoopla” created by the Modi Government around ‘Make In India’ initiative, Indian exports have contracted for 11 straight months now and plummeted by 17.6 per cent to just 154.29 billion dollars in October. (AGENCIES)
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