'PM Modi's 'Make In India' a good concept but ...': Top quotes from Rahul Gandhi's Lok Sabha address

Leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi mounted an all-out offensive on the Modi government during the debate on the motion of thanks to President Droupadi Murmu's address.

Rahul criticised the NDA government for not being able to solve the problem of employment while admitting that both UPA and the present Modi dispensation have not been able to tackle the issue of jobs.

Here are the top quotes from his address:

* Neither UPA nor NDA could tackle the employment problem

"Even though we have grown, we've grown fast, growing slightly slower now but we are growing. A universal problem that we have faced is that we have not been able to tackle the problem of unemployment. Neither the UPA govt nor today's NDA government has given a clear-cut answer to the youth of this country about employment."

* I heard pretty much the same address this time as the one delivered last time and the time before that, says Rahul Gandhi on President Droupadi Murmu's joint address to Parliament.

* If we had our own production system, we would not send our foreign minister to the US to seek invitations for our Prime Minister for their [Donald Trump's] coronation.

* PM Modi's 'Make In India' was a good concept. PM Modi tried to boost it but failed.

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* We have failed as a country to organise production. We have handed over this to the Chinese. This phone is not made in India – it’s made in China.

* The Prime Minister has denied it and the Army has contradicted the Prime Minsiter that China is sitting on 4000 sq km of our territory.

* Wars are fought by industrial systems. China has an industrial system that's far stronger and bigger than ours. That's why they have the guts to sit inside the country. It's because Make in India has failed.

* I was glad to see that PM Modi was forced to bow his head before the Constitution after the Lok Sabha results.

* Almost 70 lakh new voters were added to Maharashtra's electoral rolls between Lok Sabha and assembly elections. That's as much as the population of Himachal Pradesh. In a single building in Shirdi, over 7,000 voters were added. There is something problematic in all this.