India achieved economic independence after Modi became PM, says Tejasvi Surya

NCP’s Supriya Sule counters the BJP MP in the Lok Sabha

India may have become independent in 1947 but the country achieved economic independence only in 2014 after Narendra Modi became Prime Minister, and modern Indian history is divided between the “pre-Modi and post-Modi era”, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Tejasvi Surya said on Wednesday in the Lok Sabha during the debate on the Union Budget.

Attacking the Opposition for its “baseless and logic-less arguments” on growing unemployment under the Modi government’s watch, Mr. Surya said that “the dynast and the prince of the Congress party is confusing his political unemployment as the country’s unemployment”.