The Congress took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying that the PM in his first year in office has emerged as a "marketing guru". Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh while talking to media persons here on Sunday said, "The performance of Modi Government has been zero in the last one year. But Modi was glorifying his regime performance boastfully. He is a good marketing guru who has perfected the art of selling products with zero performance."
Digvijay further said that Modi has just done repackaging of previous Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government's schemes and running them by projecting as if they had been charted out by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Government.
Digvijay, also a former Chief Minister of the State, said that the only area where the country has registered growth under Modi rule is meat export. Meat export has climbed by more than 15 per cent in the country, he added.
He said that Modi had taken potshots at the previous UPA regime for 'pink revolution' (export of meat) during the lok Sabha election campaign last year. But under his one-year rule, the meat export has risen drastically, he added.
The senior Congress parliamentarian from the Rajya Sabha said, "Though one year is not enough to evaluate or rate the performance of a Government but an evaluation of the UPA-1's 2004 and NDA's 20014-15 will bring the truth to the fore. The NDA Government has sliced the budgetary allocation to different schemes and ministries in comparison to 2004."
He said that the Modi-led NDA Government takes credit of things without actually doing anything. "Price rise is on, the promise over black money has not been fulfilled; their only achievement is how to take credit while doing nothing," he said.