Prime Minister Narendra Modi 'misusing' official visits for private events: Congress

Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves to the crowd after speaking at a community reception at SAP Center in San Jose, California.(Reuters photo)

NEW DELHI: The Congress on Monday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of misusing his official visits abroad for private events. Party spokesperson Anand Sharma alleged that the Prime Minister was trying to appropriate a strong economy that he inherited. 'The Prime Minister has been completely ignored in US where the focus is on other leaders', he said.

Anand sharma also said that the PM figured nowhere on American news channels.

He also said that contrary to the PM's claim, India has lost support for UNSC seat as US is ambivalent while Russia and China are opposed to it. Earlier, Russia and US were in support, he added.

He accused PM of turning theatrical in his address in US but he has no achievements to show. If he talks of IT , India already has 65% share of IT-enabled services. Digital India was conceptualised long back by UPA government as a national mission project for which it allocated Rs 20K crore for the same.

'The Prime Minister claimed in United States that India is a 8 trillion dollar economy in reality it is 2.5 trillion dollar economy and even China's nominal GDP is not 8 trillion dollar', he said.