“India can be free of corruption… We have taken steps to correct the system,” he said.
As example, he mentioned the coal scam – a major political scandal during the erstwhile UPA government over the allocation of coal blocks die to which the exchequer lost Rs 1.86 lakh crore.
“Coal block auction has been undertaken by the government… About Rs.3 lakh crore will come into the exchequer. Ask yourself. Has corruption gone or not? Did the doors of corruption in the country close or not. We have done it,” he said.
He also said the government had drawn up tough laws to curb illegal wealth. It has made people fearful of stashing black money abroad.
Comparing corruption to an infestation of termites, he said, “Corruption had become part of the system… contractors were running the nation.”
Many measures were needed to curb this, he said, but the work has to start “at the top”.
“Corruption has to be removed fully from the system… With your support, I pledge a corruption-free India,” he said.
Through the recently concluded Monsoon Session of Parliament, the Congress, which is the main Opposition party, targetted the government, demanding the resignations of BJP ministers Sushma Swaraj, Vasundhara Raje and Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who, the party claimed had been named in various scandals.
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