Better to sell pakodas than be jobless: Amit Shah backs Modi in Rajya Sabha

'Making pakodas is not shameful, what is shameful is comparing such a person with a beggar,' he said and pointed out that a chaiwala's son has become PM today

Delivering his maiden speech in the Rajya Sabha on Monday afternoon, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Chief Amit Shah said the Centre’s ambitious National Health Protection Scheme, announced in the Union Budget 2018-19, will be officially known as ‘Modicare’.

Initiating the debate on the ‘motion of thanks for the President’s address’, Shah responded to some of the criticism that the Narendra Modi government has faced in recent months, particularly on farm distress and employment generation.

The BJP president, who was elected to the Rajya Sabha in August, detailed the various schemes as evidence of Modi government’s pro-poor policies, slammed the Congress