Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India has broken free from the web of the Congress party's machinations during an NDA leaders' meeting [1].
The statement underscores a strategic effort by the Prime Minister to define the National Democratic Alliance's legacy by contrasting its development record with the policies of the previous administration.
Speaking at Delhi’s Bharat Mandapam, Modi said the liberation from Congress influence was a major success of the NDA's 12 years in power [1, 2]. He said the country has witnessed rapid development under the coalition government [3].
Modi focused his critique on the economic history of the nation, specifically challenging the terminology used to describe previous growth periods. He said, "It wasn't Hindu rate of growth but Congress rate of growth" [2].
The Prime Minister said the NDA changed India's destiny after 2014 [3]. By framing the last 12 years [1] as a period of systemic change, he positioned the current government as the primary driver of the nation's modern trajectory.
The meeting served as a platform to highlight the government's achievements and criticize the past policies of the opposition party [3, 4]. Modi said the current era of development represents a definitive break from the political strategies of the Congress party [1, 2].
“A major success of the NDA’s 12 years in power is that the country has broken free from the web of Congress’s machinations.”
By framing the 'Hindu rate of growth' as a 'Congress rate of growth,' Modi is attempting to decouple the NDA's economic identity from historical labels of stagnation. This rhetoric serves to consolidate the NDA's image as a transformative force that has fundamentally altered the country's political and economic operating system over the last 12 years.
