Tharoor's taunt at Modi govt, says Make in India and hate in India' cannot go together

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New Delhi :- Congress leader Shashi Tharoor taunts at BJP government and has said policies like ‘Make in India’ and ' hate in India '  both cannot live together as he asserted that “mortifying ” statements against minorities by ruling party members only undermine the country’s soft power.
To attract foreign direct investment, which is key to the construction and modernization of the infrastructure sector and manufacturing, the Congress MP stressed on the need to maintain the pluralistic character of the country. “For us to be credible as a nation that enjoys and wields soft power, we have to fix our domestic problems first. The truth is that we have to do enough to keep our people, healthy, well and secure not just from jihadi terrorism. Progress is being made but not enough to reach everyone,” Tharoor said in his keynote address to the Harvard University’s annual Indian convention 2016. “If on one hand, we go around saying Make in India, Startup India and Digital India and want to attract foreign investors, we can’t do so if we are condoning hatred in India at the same time,” Tharoor said in reference to the flagship schemes launched by the Narendra Modi-led government. “An India that celebrates the common space of every identity, it would be a secure to be a Muslim, secure to be a kayastha... whatever you define yourself. Because all of those identities are made secure under the Indian identity,” he said. Tharoor said if India wants to remain a source of attraction for the world, it must preserve the “precious pluralism like a civilizational asset” “It is not so good when women are assaulted on the streets of Delhi. It is not good when some people begin to fear that it is safer to be a cow than to be a Muslim in India today,” Tharoor said. He also told the Indian students that one of his investor friends decided against investing in India because of acts of intolerance in the country.
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