Jairam Ramesh, while speaking to ANI, also discarded the public policy think tank's report that nearly 25 crore people were moved out of poverty in the last nine years.
Union Minister Smriti Irani and Lok Sabha MP from Amethi on Saturday hailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the expansion of the oil bottling plant in Amethi.
Chhattisgarh Deputy Chief Minister Arun Sao slammed the Congress party and said that while opposing Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the grand old party and other opposition parties are not shying away from opposing the country as well.
The Congress alleged Prime Minister Narendra Modi is evading a discussion on the Parliament security breach that occurred on December 13 and claimed that the Prime Minister's reluctance to engage in a debate is rooted in the fact that questions would be raised about the role of BJP MP Pra
Modi's wishes come at a time when the Congress just lost three Hindi heartland states in the recently concluded Assembly polls, and the crucial Lok Sabha elections are just six months away.
MP Sanjay Raut on Wednesday said that the next meeting of the INDIA bloc can take place between December 16 and 18 and many things including the face of the alliance will be decided at that time.
On the last day of campaigning in Telangana, Bharatiya Janata Party State President, G Kishan Reddy said that the government should not fall into the hands of the Congress and Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) and urged everyone to vote for the BJP.
The Congress party on Thursday criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party after their senior leader, Rahul Gandhi, received a show cause notice from the Election Commission of India over his remarks targeted at Prime Minister Modi in a public rally.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi hit out at the Congress-ruled government of Rajasthan, alleging that the state has not seen any government that has committed more "atrocities" against women than the present governmen had done during their last five years of rule.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi came down heavily on the Congress government in Rajasthan and the party high command in the national capital over its guarantees to farmers in the poll-bound state.
Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi, who is BJP election in-charge of Rajasthan, on Monday accused the Congress of trying to create a wave in its favour by telling lies and said people of the state had decided to remove the Ashok Gehlot government from power