Corrupt, dishonest won't be spared: PM
Mumbai, Dec 25, 2016, DHNS:
'Graft battle will not end till it's won'
The corrupt and the dishonest will have a harder time after December 30, Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned on Saturday.
Addressing a rally at the Bandra-Kurla Complex here, he recalled he had sought 50 days for note woes related to the November 8 note ban to subside.
“The nation stood with me... now I am saying that for those who are honest, troubles would gradually reduce after 50 days," he said. December 30 is the last day to deposit old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency at the banks.
“The strength of 125 crore Indians will bring about a change in this nation. There were efforts to mislead and even intimidate people but they supported us in the battle against corruption and black money…the people of India will not accept corruption and black money,” he said, adding: “The battle to end corruption started the day our government came to power and it would not end till it is won.”
Modi said some people thought that they can influence bank officials. “Not only did they land in trouble, but they also dragged the bank officials into trouble,” he said in a stern message that those messing up the demonetisation and remonetisation processes would not be spared.
“I am warning, please be careful…whatever is the right of the poor, you would have to give,” he said, asking people holding black money to come to the mainstream.
“If you do not fear Modi, let it be; if you do not fear government, let it be; but beware of the sentiments of 125 crore people (of this country),” he said.
The prime minister performed the ‘jal poojan’ and ‘bhoomi poojan’ of the grand memorial of the great Maratha warrior Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in the Arabian Sea and later laid the foundation for several infrastructure projects.
He laid the foundation for projects totalling Rs 1,06,000 crore, including two metro lines, the Mumbai Trans-Harbour Link and the Mumbai Urban Transport Project Phase III.
Earlier, inaugurating the new campus of National Institute of Capital Markets of the Securities and Exchange Board of India at Patalganga in Raigad district, he said: “By claiming that demonetisation has stopped a fast-moving car, our critics, too, have acknowledged the speed of our progress…We will not take decisions for short-term political point-scoring. We will not shy away from taking difficult decisions, if those decisions are in the interest of the country. Demonetisation is an example. It has short-term pain but will bring long-term gain.”
While inaugurating the Pune metro, Modi, in a veiled attack on the Congress for opposing demonetisation,said the “sins” of benami properties would not have happened and people would not be standing in queues now had necessary decisions been taken in the past.
“In 1988, Parliament passed Benami Property Act but it never got notified and implemented. The papers had got lost somewhere in a stack of files. It was me who re-opened it,” he said.
Addressing a rally at the Bandra-Kurla Complex here, he recalled he had sought 50 days for note woes related to the November 8 note ban to subside.
“The nation stood with me... now I am saying that for those who are honest, troubles would gradually reduce after 50 days," he said. December 30 is the last day to deposit old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency at the banks.
“The strength of 125 crore Indians will bring about a change in this nation. There were efforts to mislead and even intimidate people but they supported us in the battle against corruption and black money…the people of India will not accept corruption and black money,” he said, adding: “The battle to end corruption started the day our government came to power and it would not end till it is won.”
Modi said some people thought that they can influence bank officials. “Not only did they land in trouble, but they also dragged the bank officials into trouble,” he said in a stern message that those messing up the demonetisation and remonetisation processes would not be spared.
“I am warning, please be careful…whatever is the right of the poor, you would have to give,” he said, asking people holding black money to come to the mainstream.
“If you do not fear Modi, let it be; if you do not fear government, let it be; but beware of the sentiments of 125 crore people (of this country),” he said.
The prime minister performed the ‘jal poojan’ and ‘bhoomi poojan’ of the grand memorial of the great Maratha warrior Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj in the Arabian Sea and later laid the foundation for several infrastructure projects.
He laid the foundation for projects totalling Rs 1,06,000 crore, including two metro lines, the Mumbai Trans-Harbour Link and the Mumbai Urban Transport Project Phase III.
Earlier, inaugurating the new campus of National Institute of Capital Markets of the Securities and Exchange Board of India at Patalganga in Raigad district, he said: “By claiming that demonetisation has stopped a fast-moving car, our critics, too, have acknowledged the speed of our progress…We will not take decisions for short-term political point-scoring. We will not shy away from taking difficult decisions, if those decisions are in the interest of the country. Demonetisation is an example. It has short-term pain but will bring long-term gain.”
While inaugurating the Pune metro, Modi, in a veiled attack on the Congress for opposing demonetisation,said the “sins” of benami properties would not have happened and people would not be standing in queues now had necessary decisions been taken in the past.
“In 1988, Parliament passed Benami Property Act but it never got notified and implemented. The papers had got lost somewhere in a stack of files. It was me who re-opened it,” he said.
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