By AP
News – Asian Correspondent
NEW
DELHI (AP) — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi touted his government’s
poverty alleviation schemes in his Independence Day speech, but the address was
thin on plans for the future and made no mention of the setbacks to his
economic reform agenda.
Modi
won a resounding election victory in May last year largely because of his
promises to revive India’s slacking economy and put an end to a slew of
corruption scandals that the ruling Congress party was mired in.
But
achieving his ambitious reform agenda has proved hard, with both his land and
tax reform proposals stalled by the opposition.
Saturday’s
annual speech marks the anniversary of the day India gained its freedom from
British colonial rule in 1947.
Photo:
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Pic: AP.
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