Pranab Mukherjee says India will become a $5 trillion economy due to strong foundations laid by previous governments 

Pranab Mukherjee.

Delivering a lecture on “Furthering India’s Promise”, on Thursday, former President Pranab Mukherjee said that India would become a $5 trillion economy by 2024 because of the strong foundation laid by previous governments.

Mukherjee said, “The Finance Minister can say that India will become a $5 trillion economy by 2024 because of the strong foundation laid previously. The efforts were not put by Britishers but by Indians since Independence.”

He also agreed that non-Congress governments also played a vital role in the development of the country but noted that to “exclude would be absolutely absurd.”

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