Stopped ‘sweets of many’: Modi on corruption

Vowing to root out corruption in India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said he has “faced problems” by depriving the “sweets of many” and saved over Rs 36,000 crore annually by stopping leakage and theft in government schemes. 

Addressing the Indian diaspora at the end of his two-day visit to Qatar, Modi said, “We have only cleaned up the surface (on corruption) and a detailed clean-up remains.” 

“We have stopped the sweets of many and in doing so, I have also faced problems. But I get the strength to face these problems from the love received from 125 crore Indians,” he said, likening criticism of the government’s action to a child getting angry on being deprived of a sweet by 

his mother.