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What President had said?
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- Frequent elections not only impose a huge burden on human resources but also impede the development process due to the promulgation of the model code of conduct
- A sustained debate is required on the subject of simultaneous elections and all political parties need to arrive at a consensus on this issue.
- President Kovind said the Government’s diplomatic efforts had ensured a “new-found respect for India” and increasing role in global affairs. Without naming Pakistan, the President said terrorist attacks in some parts of Jammu and Kashmir were “directly related to cross-border infiltration.”
- “With better coordination, our Army, paramilitary Forces and Jammu Kashmir Police are giving a befitting response to the perpetrators,” he said.
- He also asserted that the situation in the Northeast as well as in the Maoist violence-hit areas, there had been a reduction in violence and the situation had improved
- Strongly pitching the government as pro-poor, President Kovind mentioned several initiatives like housing for all by 2022, connecting all villages with roads, uninterrupted power supply and LPG connections to the poor.
- Calling the Goods and Services Tax as the biggest tax reform since Independence, he said the government was seeking to achieve economic integration of the country.
- He even addressed the issue of the health of the public sector banks, many of which are saddled with non-performing assets, and said that the government would “recapitalise the public sector banks by infusing more than Rs 2 lakh crore of capital into them”.
- Our fight against corruption continues. Towards this end, registration of about 3.5 lakh dubious companies has been cancelled in the last one year.
- He also said the government believed in “empowerment and not appeasement” of the minorities by making intensive efforts for their economic, social and educational empowerment.
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