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Mallikarjun Kharge has praised former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's contributions, highlighting his economic policies that lifted millions out of poverty and criticising current leaders for not crediting his work...
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Tuesday wrote to former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, praising his contribution to the country, as he retires from Rajya Sabha..
The current set of leaders "who have reaped the benefits of your work are reluctant to credit you due to political biases", Kharge said in his letter to Singh, who will complete his 33-year journey in Parliament when his tenure ends on April 3...
Very few people have accomplished as much as you for the nation and its people," he said.. Manmohan Singh will always remain a "hero" to the middle class and the aspirational youth, "a leader and guide to the industrialists and entrepreneurs, and a benefactor to all those poor who were able to climb out of poverty due to your economic policies," Kharge wrote in the letter...
It was you who showed that even the poor can participate in the nation's growth and be lifted out of poverty," the Congress chief said.. Thanks to your policies, he said, India was able to lift 27 crore people, the highest number of poor people, out of poverty in the world while you were the prime minister...
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