Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri targets Kharge: Congress is making fabricated allegations using lies

New Delhi. Union Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri targeted Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and said that the Congress party is making fabricated allegations using false and fake figures. Puri, in response to Kharge’s claims in several posts on the social media platform ‘X’, cited figures and said that the inclusive development policies of the Modi government will make the country a developed nation by 2047. Earlier, Kharge had targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi by posting on ‘X’ on Friday and said, “Lies, deceit, fraud, loot and propaganda are the five adjectives that best describe your government!” He had asked Modi questions about the “promise of two crore jobs per year, inflation, demonetization and faulty-GST, electoral bonds, allegations against SEBI chief, crimes against SC/ST and India’s poor ranking on the Global Hunger Index”. In response, Puri said, “It seems that the Congress party and Kharge are unaware of the changes that have improved the lives of Indians.” Puri said that the Modi government has lifted more than 24 crore Indians out of multidimensional poverty. This has been helped by the construction of more than 11 crore toilets, 12 crore tap water connections, more than 10 crore free LPG connections, healthcare, 51 crore bank accounts, three-fold increase in capital expenditure and policy reforms like GST, Startup India, IBC and PLI scheme. He said, “We ensured that the prices of petrol and diesel did not increase even when the prices in international benchmarks increased by 40 to 70 percent, while the country was forced to return Rs 3.2 lakh crore in return due to their foolishness of issuing oil bonds worth Rs 1.41 lakh crore during the Congress-led UPA-2 government.” The Union Minister said that India is showing that it will achieve its development goals by 2047.