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No conflict with any state government: Rajnath
New Delhi, May 29
Union Home Minister Rajnath
Singh on Friday said the central government wants good relations with
every state government and it is not in conflict with any of them.
Interacting
with media persons after giving an account of the Narendra Modi
government's activities and work done during the last one year, the
minister said: "There was no conflict with any of the state
governments."
Asked whether the union government was trying to
govern Delhi through Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung, in favour of whom it had
issued a notification to the Delhi government, the minister said: "We
don't want to run (Delhi) government through LG."
Terming the Narendra Modi government's one year in office as the "year
of consolidation", Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday said it
has changed the general feeling from that of "despair to hope".
"The
country was in despair and gloom during the past ten years of UPA rule
but it has been changed to hope within one year of NDA, governance," the
minister said.
Addressing a press conference here on the
completion of one year of the Modi government in office - 'Saal Ek,
Shuruat Anek', he said poor governance has been taken over by
development and things are improving fast.
"During the UPA rule,
poor governance and corruption were in the front seat and good
governance and development were in exile," the minister said.
"We
have taken good governance and development back home 'inki Ghar Vapsi
karai hai humne' (We have brought them back home)," he said.
Touching
upon various aspects and the work areas of the government, the minister
said "Prime Minister Narendra Modi travelling abroad and meeting
various world leaders has made a lot of positive change for India".
"There was this non-alignment passive diplomacy during UPA's rule but now it's pro-active diplomacy by our government," he said.
"Be
it socio-economic, diplomatic and other areas, things have improved a
lot," Singh said, adding that all economic indicators during the
Congress rule were down but now they were looking up.
Elaborating
on how India's economy was speeding up, the minister said it has been
made investor friendly and lots of investors are coming to India to
invest in various business ventures, whereas the country was being
looted during the UPA's rule.
"Our economy would start moving
faster than China's soon as our government addresses all issues with
total transparency, "he said.
Criticising former prime minister
Manmohan Singh, the home minister said that he was an economist but
could not curb rise in prices of general commodities.
People
suffered during the UPA government. It failed to contain the ever rising
prices of essential commodities but within one year of the NDA
government the growth rate has gone up and inflation is down, Singh said
while discussing the general achievements of his government.
"Manmohan
Singh was 'arthshastri' (economist) but our Modi is 'yathartshastri'
(practical)," he said, adding how the government scheme of 'Jan-dhan
Yojna', through which Modi got the country's poor connected to the
banking system, was being appreciated across the world.
Talking
about India's nuclear agreement with France during Modi's recent visit
to the country, the home minister said it would help India in a big way.
Singh also said that during the past one year, the government has cleared 40 defence related proposals.
"It's has been done with full transparency," he added.
The home minister said that internal security was sound and the threat from terrorism and naxalism was being dealt with firmly.
On centre-state relations, the minister said the central government was not in conflict with any of the state governments.
Speaking
on the tussle with the Delhi government over the ministry of home
affairs' recent notification, Singh said: "We don't have problem with
any government".