Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not mentioning ‘Make in India’ during his Lok Sabha speech on Tuesday.
Taking to X, Rahul stated, “Prime Minister, in your speech you didn’t even mention ‘Make in India’! The PM should acknowledge that ‘Make in India’, although a good initiative, is a failure. Manufacturing has fallen from 15.3% of GDP in 2014 to 12.6% – the lowest in the last 60 years.”
Highlighting the issue of unemployment in the country, the Congress leader stated, “India’s youth desperately need jobs. No government in recent times, UPA or NDA, has been able to meet this national challenge at scale. We need a vision to address what’s holding our manufacturing sector back, and prepare it to be competitive in the global economy of the future.”
Emphasising the role of technology in job creation, the Rae Bareli MP said, “This vision for production in India must also have a specific focus on emergent technologies like electric motors, batteries, optics, and AI. This is the only way to revive our manufacturing sector, develop cutting edge manufacturing ability, and create the jobs we need.”
Underlining the need for building a robust production system, Rahul concluded his post by stating, “China is 10 years ahead of us and has a stronger industrial system – this is what gives them the confidence to challenge us. The only way to compete effectively with them is to build our production systems and for that, we need vision and strategy.”
