Visakhapatnam, May 26 (UNI) All India Congress Committee (AICC) senior leader and former Union Law and Petroleum Minister M Veerappa Moily today charged the Narendra Modi Government with failure on all fronts during its three-year rule, has exuded confidence that the Congress will return to power in the next 2019 elections. Addressing a press conference here, he was confident of making a comeback after the Uttar Pradesh debacle, he said that he was basing his confidence on the outcome in Punjab, Goa, Manipur, and the by-elections in Karnataka. Asked whether the Congress would align with the YSR Congress of Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy in Andhra Pradesh, he said everything was possible in politics, but it would happen at the time of the elections. Mr Moily recalled that N Chandrababu Naidu’s TDP was once part of the NDA during Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s tenure, but walked out of it later. Similarly, Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress and the CPI(M) were once part of the UPA, he added. In a multi-polar polity, there would be contradictions and alliances would take place, he said. He also said the Congress was still committed to the Special Category Status promised by former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. For the BJP and Mr. Chandrababau Naidu, it may be a closed chapter. “But for us, it is living history,” Whether agriculture or industry, there was no growth and no jobs were created during the three-year rule, he said. On every single front, the UPA did better than NDA and Mr. Modi was claiming projects almost completed during the UPA regime as those of the NDA, he said. Farmers’ suicides were continuing and the wage allocation to the flagship MGNREGS was being reduced, he alleged. Whatever capital infusion was taking place was only for technology in the corporate sector without jobs, he said, adding that party vice-president Rahul Gandhi’s comment that it was a “suit, boot, sarkar ” was fully justified. After demonetisation of 14.5 lakh crore, the officials concerned were still not able to say how much money was deposited in the banks and RBI was still counting, Mr Moily, who is Chairman of Parliamentary Standing Committee of Finance, said. The growth rate during the last three years was less than 6.8 per cent and the revised method was nothing but creating hype, he said. Even agricultural exports fell to US $1,338 million from $3,295 million during the UPA regime, he added. UNI BSR JW 2316