PM hits out at Cong for slow pace of development during UPA , hindering passage of Triple Talaq bill

New Delhi, Aug 15: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence day speech saw him taking ‘potshots’ at the Congress on the ‘slow’ pace of development during the rule of the previous UPA government and for ‘blocking’ passage of the Triple Talaq bill.
In an apparent jibe at the previous UPA Government, he said India has been put on a faster development track during last four years.
‘In 2014, esteemed economists and agencies said Indian economy was risky. Today, the same people say reform momentum is strengthening. The businesses used to talk about red tape, now they talk about red carpet.
They used to talk about policy paralysis, today they talk about reform, perform, transform. India used to be counted in the ‘Fragile Five’ in the world, but today, India is a multi-trillion dollar investment hub. Everything has changed,’ Mr Modi asserted.
He said the four years of the NDA government had witnessed growth at a much faster pace than was witnessed previously.
“If we had continued at the same pace at which toilets were being constructed in 2013, the pace at which electrification was happening in 2013, then it would have taken us decades to complete. It would have taken maybe more than 100 years to get gas connections to all poor mothers. It would have taken generations to lay optical fibre,” the Prime Minister said .
PM Modi also attacked the opposition for “stalling” the triple talaq bill in Parliament, but said that he would “continue to fight for the rights of Muslim women.”
‘The practice of Triple Talaq has caused great injustice among Muslim women. The Triple Talaq has ruined the lives of many women and many are still living in fear,” Mr Modi said in his Independence Day address from the ramparts of the Red Fort.
He said that his government tried to bring the Bill in Parliament in the just concluded Monsoon session after the Cabinet had approved some amendments to end the practice of Triple Talaq.
‘But there are some people who do not want it to be passed,” the Prime Minister said in an apparent jibe at the Congress and other opposition parties, after the Bill was deferred on the session’s last day in Rajya Sabha due to lack of consensus.
‘I assure Muslim sisters and daughters that their rights would be protected. The government is committed to the bill against Triple Talaq,’ he said.
UNI