<p>Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday claimed that the Make in India initiative has failed.</p>
<p>The Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha was speaking in the Lower House during the Motion of Thanks (MoT) on the President's address, news agency ANI reported.</p>
<p>He also stated that he did not find anything new in the President's address delivered at the inauguration of the Budget session.</p>
<p>"I heard the President's address. I sat there with (Congress chief Mallikarjun) Kharge Ji, and I listened to it. I must say, I struggled through the President's address to maintain my attention on what was being said because I had heard pretty much the same Presidential address last time, the time before that, and the time before that," Gandhi said.</p>
<p>"It was the same list of things the government has done. 'We've done this, we've done that'... 50 or 100 things the government has done," he added.</p>
<p>"I was sitting there thinking, 'Okay, I'm being critical of what is being said. I'm saying that this is not the type of address that should be delivered.' Then a question came to my mind: What type of Presidential address should be delivered, and how would that address be different from what we heard?" he further suggested.</p>
<h2>Budget Session: We haven't been able to tackle unemployment</h2>
<p>The Congress leader emphasised the need to focus on the country's production in his address, and said, "Today, I would lay out some dimensions of what an alternative address would look like, what the INDIA (Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance) bloc would probably focus on, and where we would lay emphasis. The future of the country will be decided by the youth of the country."</p>
<p>"So, I think anything we say has to address them. The first thing in front of us that the PM (Prime Minister) would accept, and everyone in this room would accept, is that we have grown fast; we are growing now, but we are still growing. A universal problem we have faced is that we have not been able to tackle the problem of unemployment," he added.</p>
<p>"Neither the UPA (United Progressive Alliance) government nor the NDA (National Democratic Alliance) government has given a clear-cut answer to youth unemployment. I don't think anybody will disagree with that," Gandhi stated.</p>
<p>He also pointed out that the share of production in the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) has decreased from 15.3 per cent in 2014 to 12.6 per cent in 2025, ANI reported.</p>
<p>"The PM proposed the 'Make in India' programme. I think it was a good idea; we saw the statue, we saw the logo, we saw the investment, and the result is right in front of you. Manufacturing fell from 15.3 per cent of GDP in 2014 to 12.6 per cent of GDP today. That is the lowest share of manufacturing in history," he stated, adding that he would not blame this on the Prime Minister, as it would be unfair to say that the effort was lacking.</p>
<p>Gandhi stated that 'Make in India' was a good idea, but it is pretty clear that it failed."</p>
<h2>Must focus on production, says Rahul Gandhi</h2>
<p>"I would not blame this on the Prime Minister; it is unfair to say that he did not try. I think the Prime Minister tried, and I think conceptually, Make in India was a good idea, but it is pretty clear that it failed."</p>
<p>"The first question the alternative vision would answer to the youth of our country is how to solve this problem of employment. Any country essentially organises two things: you can organise consumption, and you can organise production," he added.</p>
<p>"Pretty much every government since 1990 has done a decent job in consumption. But as a country, we have failed in organising production," he said in his speech.</p>
<p>"The record of the country in organising production is dismal, and essentially what we have done is hand over the organisation of production to China. Even though we say we make this phone in India, it's not a fact. This phone is not made in India; it's assembled in India," the Leader of Opposition added, holding up his phone in the Lok Sabha.</p>
<p>"All the components of this phone are made in China. The network that is produced is made in China. So whenever we use a phone or wear a Chinese t-shirt, or a Bangladeshi t-shirt, or wear a pair of Chinese sneakers, we are paying tax to China because some Chinese youngster is earning to make that product. So the first message I would give in a Presidential address is to focus completely on production," he stated, adding that if the focus is not on production but only on consumption, there will be a huge deficit, increase in inequality, and other serious problems.</p>
<p>"I would like to tell all the youngsters of the country that there is an exciting revolution taking place. The heart of the changing world is that we are moving from the world of the internal combustion engine to electric motors. We are moving from petrol to batteries. We are moving to wind, solar, and potentially nuclear energy," the Congress leader further said.</p>
<p>According to ANI, he also highlighted that the then <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/maharashtra-congress-chief-patole-alleges-internal-power-tussle-within-mahayuti-calls-governance-chaotic-23474936" target="_blank" rel="none noopener"><strong>Congress </strong></a>government "rode" the computer revolution.</p>
<p>"The last time there was a revolution it was the computer revolution. The government of <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/air-india-fined-rs-30-lakh-over-flight-rule-violation-23477122" target="_blank" rel="none noopener"><strong>India </strong></a>had a clear focus; we looked at that revolution. It was a Congress government, and we decided we were going to focus on the development of software, and we rode that wave of that revolution. Today, you can see the result. I remember people laughing," Gandhi stated.</p>
<p>He also spoke about the <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/news/world-news/article/volodymyr-zelensky-says-russia-bombing-its-own-civilians-in-kursk-region-23477073" target="_blank" rel="none noopener"><strong>Russia-Ukraine war </strong></a>and said, "I said that the revolution is going to change everything. A war is going on in Ukraine. The actual war is between an internal combustion machine and the motor."</p>
<p>"The electric motor is inside the drone, and the machine is in the tank. If you look at what's going on in <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/news/world-news/article/volodymyr-zelensky-says-russia-bombing-its-own-civilians-in-kursk-region-23477073" target="_blank" rel="none noopener"><strong>Ukraine</strong></a>, the tanks are dying by the thousands, while small drones are destroying the tanks and the entire artillery of Russia and Ukraine," the Leader of the Opposition added.</p>
<p><strong>(With ANI inputs)</strong></p><p>
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