Terming Prime Minister Narendra Modi's interviews to two news outlets as "monologues", the Congress attacked the PM on rising cases of lynchings and said that his stand contradicts the actions of his Cabinet colleagues.
"You say one thing while your minister goes and does something else. One minister is wrapping the Tricolour on the dead body Akhlaq's killer while another minister is garlanding killers and another MP says he will fund legal fees of the killers. The Prime Minister has not acted against any one of them. How do you expect the message to percolate down to the foot soldiers," Congress leader Pawan Khera told reporters on Sunday.
Questioning Modi on several counts like job creation, Rafale deal, NRC exercise in Assam, as well as GST, Khera said "the Modi cabinet now says that most of the schemes have a deadline for 2022" — an extension of 48 months now. He also alleged that Modi's claim of creating 2 crore jobs during the no-confidence motion is unverified. "EPFO enrolments are not necessarily new jobs. They mostly reflect jobs moving from unorganised sectors to organised ones. EPFO data cannot be a measure because according to statutory requirements, only when an organisation has 20 or more employees, it comes under EPFO's ambit," said Khera. He even cited Niti Aayog, which in February 2018, admitted that India is plagued by 'unsatisfactory jobs and underemployment' and that over 1.26 crore jobs in the in the unorganised sector were lost during demonetisation.
Calling GST rollout a failure, he said GST collection of Rs 517 crore this quarter is less than the estimated target of Rs 6,039 crore, and added that it affected hundreds of small and medium industries due to the five tiers of GST rates.
The Congress also attacked the Modi government on NRC exercise, and said while the UPA government deported 82,728 Bangladeshi foreigners between 2005-2013, only 1,822 were deported under the Modi government.
COUNTERATTACK
- The Congress, Left parties and others attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying that he is speaking out of ‘nervousness’ and that it is the NDA which is crumbling and not the opposition which stands together.
- The remarks came after Modi, in interviews to media organisations, said the opposition unity is for ‘personal survival and not ideological support’ and for ‘personal ambitions’ instead of people’s aspirations.
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