Returned what we took in form of taxes, says PM Narendra Modi

New Delhi, January 16

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said the government had given back to people what it had taken from them in the form of taxes.

Inaugurating a new campus of the National Academy of Customs, Indirect Taxes and Narcotics at Palasamudram, Sri Sathya Sai district, Andhra Pradesh, today, the PM said fighting corruption was his government’s top priority.

“Whatever we took from people, we returned to them and this is good governance and the message of ‘Ram rajya’. Fight against corruption, action against corrupt people has been the priority of the government,” he said. He later went to Kerala’s Kochi. Ahead of the Ram Temple inauguration in Ayodhya on January 22, he said Lord Ram was a great symbol of good governance and could be an inspiration for the academy too.

“Almost 25 crore people have exited poverty in the last nine years by the efforts of the present government,” the PM said. PM Modi also prayed at the famous Veerbhadra Temple at Lepakshi on Tuesday and heard verses from Ranganatha Ramayana, which is in Telugu.