Bhopal: Slamming the Congress for disrupting Parliament, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that all parties were in favour of bringing in economic reforms through Goods and Services Tax Bill but it was only the Congress which is barricading the passage of the bill in Parliament.
"We had hoped Congress would work with us, help the Parliament enforce reforms but the party just doesn't want to work with us," he said. Modi also alleged that Congress is avoiding dialogues on important social issues.
A day after Congress President Sonia Gandhi called Modi a 'hawabaaz', the PM hit back at her saying the 'hawalabaaz' are putting roadblocks in the country's growth.
Taking a dig at Congress, Modi also said that the party which was once in a majority has been reduced to nearly 40 seats in Lok Sabha today. "To those who have been rejected by the people, I appeal to them for the pride of democracy, to fend economic dangers, work with us," he said.
"Every political group must leave no stone unturned in order to meet public expectations if they win and to introspect if they are defeated," he asserted. "We faced defeat in 1984. We introspected and tried to learn from that defeat. But we didn't criticise others and corrected our mistakes instead. Today, the nation has given us a majority in Lok Sabha," he added.
"There was a time when the BJP had only two MPs in Parliament. The then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi made fun of BJP in Parliament and we had to listen to it," Modi recalled.
Modi was speaking at the inaugural event of the 10th three-day World Hindi Conference in Bhopal.
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