Udhampur, Jan 30: Union Minister of State in PMO Jitendra Singh Tuesday said that India would emerge as the world’s third largest economy in Narendra Modi’s third term as the Prime Minister.
“The country has great stakes in the return of a BJP led government headed by PM Modi in order to continue the upward trend in Bharat’s growth story,” he said. He was speaking at the launch of the BJP Election Office for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
“In 2014, when PM Modi took over, India stood as the world’s tenth economy. In less than ten years, we jumped to 5th position after overtaking the United Kingdom, which had ruled over us for nearly two centuries. Hopefully this year it will emerge as the 4th largest economy and during PM Modi’s 3rd term, India will be the world’s 3rd largest economy, marching on to become the No 1 economy by 2047,” he said.
Referring to Udhampur-Kathua-Doda as “among the most developed Lok Sabha constituencies in the last 10 years since 2014”, the Union Minister said, “Today this constituency is being cited as a role model. Not only several national and first-of-its-kind projects were brought in in the last 10 years, but even those projects which had been abandoned by the earlier governments were revived.”