Arun Jaitley says ‘sound policy will take people out of poverty not slogans’ 

Arun Jaitley.

Union finance minister Arun Jaitley said “sound policy, not slogans” will put economy on track and people out of poverty. He added, people will soon realize the transient nature of slogans and that they cannot be implemented. This is seen as an oblique remark to Congress’s call for waiver of farm loans and the implementation of the same in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan, after winning the recently concluded assembly elections in these states.

Jaitley, during the release of “Strategy for New India @ 75” prepared by NITI Aayog, said, “Sound policy will always put economy on track in which it will get perpetually people out of poverty and give them better quality of life. However, there will be always a debate on whether sound policy pays more or the slogans.”

He added, “In democracy these debates will always arise … The aspirational people who have high level of aspiration and very low level of patience now will point out on day two or day three about the inability to convert slogans into reality.”

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