Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday targeted the Congress-led UPA government for the largest power outage in the country in 2012 and said his government has worked towards 'One Nation, One Grid' and there is uninterrupted power supply in all parts of the country.
"PSBs were treated as 'ATMs' for their cronies and shady businessmen. It was actually during the UPA regime when bank employees were harassed and forced to give loans to cronies through "phone banking" by the then Congress-led UPA Govt functionaries," Sitharaman said.
With several opposition members attacking the government alleging discrimination between states in the Union Budget, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman hit back over the allegations and said budgets presented during the Congress-led UPA government also did not name most of the states
The bad loans crisis during the Congress-led UPA tenure stifled the credit requirements and dreams of crores of aspirational Indians who wanted to establish start-ups and expand small businesses, alleged Finance Minister and senior BJP leader Nirmala Sitharaman.
In a blistering attack on the previous Congress-led UPA government at the Centre, BJP national president JP Nadda on Tuesday said it treated 'terrorists' from across the border to 'biryani'.
With Congress slamming the economic performance of the BJP-led government, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has hit back at the party and challenged Rahul Gandhi to answer questions raised by her concerning the promises made by the opposition party in its manifesto and the performance
"BJP's manifesto is in the form of Modi's guarantee. Our tagline is 'Phir ek baar Modi sarkar' and mainly people trust PM Modi's guarantee. The track record of our 10 years shows that through the Garib Kalyan Yojana, we've made progressive changes in the sectors of infrastructure, electronic
Drawing a parallel with the previous Congress-led UPA government at the Centre, with regard to its response to the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai, the External Affairs Minister said a country "cannot have any rules" when dealing with the perpetrators of terror as the latter don't play by
Facing his third Lok Sabha election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi hit out at the previous Congress-led UPA regime on Saturday for allegedly "neglecting" border villages in the northeastern states.
Invoking Nationalist Congress Party (SCP) chief Sharad Pawar's tenure as Union Agriculture Minister under the Congress-led UPA, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said money sanctioned by Delhi for the distressed farmers of Vidarbha was 'looted' midway.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday alleged that the Congress-led UPA government did not capitalise on the positive economic environment that it inherited from the Vajpayee government and there was "ill-targeted, reckless fiscal policy, ill targeted subsidies and wasteful expendi
Asserting that the 'White Paper' containing details of the alleged fiscal mismanagement of the Congress-led UPA at the Centre prior to 2014 has laid out the 'entire truth' before the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said there was great disappointment among investors around