Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Saturday that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has mastered the “art of slogans”, but has not given any solution, and claimed that India had a record low despite the ‘Make in India’ initiative.
“Make in India” promised a factory boom. So why has record climbing, record high levels of youth unemployment, and more and more imported from China? Since 2014, the manufacturing has fallen to 14 percent of our economy, ”he said in a post on X.
“Make in India” promised a factory boom. So why is construction on record climbing, record high youth unemployment, and imports from China double?
Modi ji has mastered the art of slogans, not a solution. Since 2014, manufacturing has fallen to our 14% … pic.twitter.com/hsl9pbuypx
– Rahul Gandhi (@Rulgandhi) June 21, 2025
Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Gandhi said that Modi has “no new idea” and has “surrendered”.
He said, “Even the much -awaited PLI scheme is now quietly withdrawing,” she alleged.
Gandhi said that India needs a fundamental change, which empowers millions of producers through honest reforms and financial assistance.
He said, “We should stop forming a market for others. If we do not make here, we will continue to buy from those people. The clock is standing,” he said.
Gandhi met mobile repair technicians at Nehru Place, Delhi and attached a video of the conversation in the post.
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“In Nehru Place, New Delhi, I met Shivam and Saif – bright, skilled, filled with promises – yet denied the opportunity to fulfill it.”
Given that there is a difference between ‘Made in India’ and ‘assembled in India’, he said: “Truth: We gather, we import, but we do not make China’s profits.” He said, “China is the world’s electronic market. There is no other electronic market anywhere. As you want, assembly in the form of an iPhone, whatever you are doing, it is giving money to India’s big Oligopoli. Start making iPhones, it’s a completely different ball game,” he said in the video.
The former Congress chief asked to build parts, whether it is a motherboard or “small pieces”, you need a certain level of machineing, a certain level of quality, a certain level of understanding of tolerance to work with small components.
“This is a learned skill. It’s not something you can get in just two minutes. Until you start respecting the idea of manual labor, the man who is doing that work … But we have no respect for the man who is sitting there, selling his things, for hours …”
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“And, at its center, and people do not like it, when I say it, and the idea of caste at the center.
Rahul Gandhi and Congress have raised the issue of census a nationwide caste to find out whether there is a proportional “part” of power in various castes in society.
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