New Delhi: In Germany, Prime Minister Narendra Modi took a dig at the Congress as he yet again highlighted that his BJP government was making sure that maximum benefits were reaching the country’s people.
Addressing the Indian community in Berlin, Modi said the young and aspirational India understood the need for political stability to achieve faster development and had ended three decades of instability by mere touch of a button.
In an apparent dig at the Congress, Modi said now no Prime Minister will have to lament that he sends one rupee, but only 15 paise reaches the intended beneficiary.
‘Woh kaunsa panja tha jo 85 paise ghis leta tha (which palm was it that used to take away 85 paise),’ he quipped.
Recounting the success of the digital payment mechanism, the Prime Minister said India’s share in real time digital payments world over is more than 40 per cent. He said the government too was using the digital payment mechanism to make payments to farmers directly in their bank accounts.
In the last eight years, the prime minister said, the government has transferred more than Rs 22 lakh crore to beneficiaries through direct benefit transfer. ‘The way technology is being included in governance in India shows the new political will of the new India as well as is the proof of democracy’s delivery capacity,’ he underlined.