PM Modi's interview: BJP leaders hail visionary leadership, Opposition raises questions on price rise, unemployment

PM Modi's 'Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas' model is guiding principle for world welfare, shifting from GDP-centric to human-centric. BJP hails vision, INDIA bloc parties raise questions on rising prices, unemployment. PM Modi believes India will be developed nation by 2047, BJP leaders laud his report card. Opposition leaders question government’s track record, cite inflation, unemployment. \

The BJP and the Opposition traded barbs on September 3 over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's remarks in an interview to PTI ahead of the G20 summit, with the ruling party leaders hailing his vision for the country and INDIA bloc parties raising questions on "rising" prices and unemployment.

In the interview, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted that the 'Sabka Saath Sabka Vikas' model can be the guiding principle for the welfare of a world shifting from a  GDP-centric approach to a  human-centric one.

Irrespective of the size of the GDP, every voice matters,  Mr. Modi told PTI in an exclusive interview conducted late last week at his Lok Kalyan Marg residence.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi exclusive interview to PTI

Prime Minister Modi said that India's economic growth is a natural by-product of his nine-year-old government's political stability, as he expressed optimism that it will be a developed nation by 2047 with "corruption, casteism and communalism" having no place in our national life.

His remarks evoked contrasting reactions from the ruling party and opposition leaders.

"There is no doubt in anyone's mind that India under PM Modi over the last nine years and India's G20 presidency are big milestones in the country's rise on the global stage," Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Prime Minister Modi's 'India soon to be in top three world economies' remark.