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Most unemployment surveys are skewed, PM Narendra Modi tells House

PM also slammed criticism of the interim budget's proposal of Rs 6,000 per year income support to small and marginal farmers

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the Lok Sabha during the Budget Session of Parliament, in New Delhi | Photo: PTI

Archis Mohan New Delhi
In what is likely to be his last speech in the Lok Sabha’s current term, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday responded to the recent criticism his government has faced for its purported failure to create jobs.

In his reply to the motion of thanks to the President’s address, Modi contrasted 55 years of “self-serving” Congress rule at the Centre versus the achievements of his government’s 55 months in the “service of the people”. Alluding to the grand alliance of the Opposition parties, 
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