Senior BJP Leader and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said that India has been growing to become the fifth largest economy in the world. Speaking at a public meeting organised by the Tamil Nadu State BJP at Tambaram, near Chennai on Tuesday evening, he said that India has grown from procuring weapons to a self-sufficient country to manufacture defence weapons. <br />''<br />''Listing out all the achievements of the Narendra Modi led Government for the past nine years, Rajnath Singh said that it was for the first time that an Indian Prime Minister was addressing the joint session of the US Congress. On the political Front, he said that the coalition with AIADMK was intact. Mr. Singh criticised the DMK for making the arrest of Senthil Balaji into a political show. He told that the sceptre from Tamilnadu has been placed in Parliament as a mark of respect to the people of the State and its pride known to the World by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<br />''<br />''<br />