Modi Vows to Curb Prices While Promising India 100 Smart Cities

India’s top opposition leader Narendra Modi promised voters cheaper goods and 100 “smart cities” in unveiling steps to boost Asia’s third-biggest economy as he seeks to unseat the ruling Congress party.

Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party will create a stabilization fund to combat Asia’s fastest inflation and form special courts to try those who hoard goods, he said in New Delhi yesterday. A Modi-led government would also improve the rail network and power supply in the world’s second-most populous nation, he told thousands of party workers.