Cong hits back at Modi for 'we launch and complete projects'

The Congress today criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his remarks that "we not only launch but also complete projects", saying democracy was a continuous process and several schemes initiated by the UPA have been inaugurated by him.
Reacting to Modi's remarks, Congress leader Rajeev Shukla said that in a democracy many times one government starts a project and another inaugurates it.
"With humility, I want to tell the Prime Minister that in a democracy governments come and go. One government starts a project and another government inaugurates it. There is is no time boundary," Shukla told reporters.
"To say that we inaugurate the projects initiated by us, I don't think it is right to say so," he said.

Shukla cited several projects like the Jammu-Katra rail link, Meghalaya rail line, Puri hydro electric project, the country's largest tunnel in Jammu and Kashmir, Kudankulam nuclear power plant, Kochi metro and the Mumbai trans harbour metro link line, besides Assam's longest river bridge on Brahmaputra, that were initiated by the Congress-led UPA government but inaugurated by Modi.
He said that the agreement for the bullet train project that Modi announced recently was also signed by former prime minister Manmohan Singh.
Noting that democracy is a continuous process, the Congress leader said, "It is not fair" to claim that he launches the projects he announces as it is "not possible" in a democracy to do so.

Modi, on his first visit to Varanasi after the BJP's landslide victory in the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh in March this year, had said yeaterday that, "We not only launch but also complete projects.