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Releasing a 75-page papers titled ‘Prachaar versus hisaab’ (propaganda versus account/tally) to mark the 2nd twelvemonth of the 3rd word of the Narendra Modi government, the Congress connected Tuesday (June 9, 2026) said the Centre’s claims connected employment, economical growth, democracy, infrastructure, and acquisition person not translated into tangible gains for citizens.
In a station connected societal media level X, the Leader of the Opposition successful the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi alleged that 12 years of “anti-poor economical policies and a compromised overseas policy” had pushed the state into a concern wherever millions of mediocre families and women had been forced towards the “poisonous fume of firewood stoves”.
“The fig of subsidized cylinders nether the Ujjwala strategy has been reduced from 9 to 4. On apical of that, the terms of home LPG cylinders has been accrued by ₹89 successful the past 3 months - meaning, archetypal hike the prices, past chopped the subsidy, and snuff retired the poor’s hearth,” Mr. Gandhi said.
“The lifeline of migrant workers, the 5 kg cylinder, has besides been made ₹323 much costly - what volition they earn, what volition they eat, and what volition they save? Arranging indebtedness waivers worthy millions of crores for billionaire friends and passing the measure of your failures onto the mediocre - this is Modi’s loot model,” helium added.
The 75-page document, prepared by the All-India Congress Committee’s probe department, was released by its chairman Rajeev Gowda on with his workfellow Amitabh Dubey.
The past 12 years had been characterised by “big announcements, expansive statements, and headlines”, but small meaningful alteration successful people’s lives, Mr. Gowda said.
“Under Prime Minister Modi, the rupee is the worst performing currency,” Mr. Gowda said, adding, “Over the past 12 years, promises person been accompanied by large announcements, expansive statements, and headlines. But the world is that nary of those headlines really construe into thing that is meaningfully transforming the lives of the people.”
“Four retired of 10 graduates stay unemployed,” he said, claiming that the authorities had failed to make capable employment. Urban younker unemployment stood astatine 18.4%, and lone 7% of unemployed graduates had secured a imperishable salaried occupation wrong a year, Mr. Gowda said.
On women’s information successful the workforce, Mr. Gowda said India’s ranking successful the Global Gender Gap Index had fallen from 108 to 131. “We are failing 1 fractional of our colonisation by not creating opportunities for women to participate the workforce,” helium said.
Referring to the micro, tiny and mean enterprises (MSME) sector, helium said astir 40,000 enterprises had unopen down successful the erstwhile fiscal year. “The harm caused by demonetisation continues, and the MSMEs assemblage continues to carnivore the brunt,” helium said.
Mr. Gowda besides alleged that “6.5 crore voters person been deleted crossed the country”, adding, “We person a concern wherever our ideology is profoundly flawed, and this is simply a existent calamity for each national of India.”
Mr. Dubey criticised the authorities connected inflation, claiming that the prices of LPG, petrol, diesel, milk, and pulses had risen sharply since 2014.
“Narendra Modi had claimed that India would go the world’s 3rd largest system and scope a $5 trillion system by 2024. But the world contiguous is that the system has fallen beneath $4 trillion, and India has slipped to the sixth largest economy,” Mr. Dubey said.
Foreign investors were leaving India, and home industrialists were progressively investing abroad, resulting successful the state missing maturation targets contempt the caller GDP figures, helium said.
Mr. Dubey besides targeted the authorities connected infrastructure, obstruction safety, and education. He said overcrowding, delays, and information concerns persisted successful the Railways, portion citing National Crime Records Bureau data to assertion that 22,413 radical had died connected the railway tracks. Referring to repeated introspection insubstantial leaks, helium alleged that “89 insubstantial leaks person occurred and 48 re-exams person been conducted”.
“Our request is — Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan should instantly resign from his post,” Mr. Dubey said.
