VARANASI, July 6 - Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday dismissed as �professional pessimists� the critics of the Centre�s target to achieve a $5-trillion economy within the next five years and asserted that the �New India� is on the threshold of sprinting forward.
He was addressing a gathering in his Lok Sabha constituency, after launching the BJP�s membership drive on the occasion of the 118th birth anniversary of party ideologue Syama Prasad Mookerjee.
�I am fully confident that as a nation, with our collective efforts, in the next five years we will definitely reach the destination of $5-trillion economy. But, some people are questioning the need for this (goal)... These are people we can call professional pessimists. These professional pessimists are totally different from common people,� he said a day after presentation of the Union Budget 2019-20. � PTI
