Times of News: In new India, shameful activities like Gorakhpur shouldn't take place: Arun Jaitley

Sunday, 20 August 2017

In new India, shameful activities like Gorakhpur shouldn't take place: Arun Jaitley

In new India, shameful activities like Gorakhpur shouldn’t take place, said Finance and Defence Minister, Arun Jaitley who was at the New India Pledge event in Mumbai organised by Mumbai Bhartiya Janata Party on Sunday.

While speaking about the new India infrastructure, Jaitley said, “there should not be shameful incidents like Gorakhpur”.

Commenting on the stone-pelting in Kashmir, Jaitley said that the practice of funding stone-pelters needs to be discouraged. “Since we have arrested people who were funding stone pelters we can see a direct impact. Many a times, terrorists use stone pelting as an excuse to escape.”

While projecting the major changes for new India by 2022, Arun Jaitley said progress in India will take place in three fields.

Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Devendra Fadnavis was also present at the event. He said the role Indian government has palyed in Doklam projects shows their policy in defense, “India which was just defending it’s border, now is on the forefront and defending borders of other countries. This new India showed strength to stop China because we are not scared.”