NEW DELHI/ A AKHTER
Congress Party today made fun of Modi government completion of two years in the office saying it is a “fraudulently dynamic” government. Party said that the NDA government has failed on all the important front of development and making only empty promises for people.
It said that people who gave Modi a sweeping mandate in 2014 are “bewildered and confused” as job growth, industrial output and exports are all plunging.
With a battery of senior leaders, the main opposition party dared Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a public debate over the issue, maintaining that his government was “surviving because of newspapers and news channels.”
Leader of the Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad, Congress leader in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, former Union Minister Kapil Sibal as also party’s chief spokesman Randeep Surjewala targeted the Prime Minister on different issues including handling of economy, employment and foreign policy.
They claimed that what the country had witnessed in the last two years was just “empty promises and gimmicks” and dubbed Modi government as most disappointing ruling dispensation since independence.
“Modi government is not visible on the ground. It is surviving because of newspapers and news channels. Government has been thriving on advertisements, Azad said taking a dig at the Prime Minister.
Azad said the government was only engaged in repackaging and renaming in the garb of launching new schemes while on foriegn policy, the government is “consistently inconsistent“.
On Government’s handling of Pakistan issue, Sibal said the BJP, when in Opposition, used to ask why Congress was writing love letters to Pakistan.
The ruling party should answer why it invited to Pathankot a team from Pakistan. He was referring to the visit of Pakistan’s Joint Investigation Team to probe Pathankot terror attack here.
Sibal raised questions as to who is driving the foreign policy of India, whether it was the Prime Minister, the Foreign Secretary, the Foreign Minister or the National Security Advisor.
Azad also said there is a “non-existent Naga accord.” He said that while there is a major agricultural distress, government has done nothing to help farmers.
Sibal alleged that the Prime Minister toured various countries of the world, but did not reach out to the farmer. The Modi government was “fraudulently dynamic and dynamically fraudulent”, he said.
In a power point presentation, the party took a jibe at ’Achche Din’ (good days) slogan of Modi in the run up to 2014 Lok Sabha polls, saying people of India fell for Modi’s “web of deceit” woven around development and now waiting for three more years to put behind the ‘Bure Din’(bad days) of the Modi regime behind.
Noting that drought, rural distress and Government’s “apathy” were severely affecting farmers, it accused the Prime Minister of “stabbing” the farmers by zero increase in Minimum Support Price.
The party said that price rise was hitting the kitchen budget and cited sharp hike in price of pulses.
“Democracy has been shamelessly subverted. No cooperative federalism is left,” it said alluding to recent happenings in Congress-ruled Arunachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. In the backdrop of some senior ministers having called Modi “God’s gift to India”, Surjewala said “Modi stuti (praising Modi) has become the conduct and character of this government.