Gandhis stonewalling Parl to avenge LS defeat: Modi
BY MPost6 Feb 2016 12:32 AM GMT
MPost6 Feb 2016 12:32 AM GMT
Addressing tea garden workers at Moran in Assam on Friday Modi singled out the Gandhi family for disrupting parliament and stonewalling passage of important bills to avenge defeat in 2014 Lok Sabha polls. He said blocking the passage of bills was aimed at denying benefits to the poor.
Modi alleged that “one family” was indulging in “negative politics” as he claimed that there are leaders in opposition parties other than Congress who want Parliament to function even though they oppose him.
“Those who have lost the election (in 2014) and have come down from 400 to 40 have decided not to allow Modi to work. They have decided to create obstacles and difficulties. The conspiracy for the same is going on,” he said, referring clearly to Congress.
The point he made was not lost on the Gandhi family as the Congress vice-president decided to address media in the national Capital immediately after the PM’s rally and blamed Modi of inability to govern.
“PM has been making excuses for last one-and-a-half years for not being able to deliver. The job of the Prime Minister is to run the country and not make excuses,” he said.
The Prime Minister also dubbed Congress and the Gandhis anti-poor. “They have now decided to take revenge from people, from the poor workers” for voting the Congress out of power, Modi said at the public meeting that was virtually an election rally. To this Gandhi scion said that the Congress created hurdles for the government which worked for the industrialists.
Gandhi said that his party would not let Prime Minister Narendra Modi run a government that acts only in the interests of three or four industrialists. “We will put pressure on the government so that they pay attention to poor people and the farmers,” the Congress VP said.
Modi’s remarks came against the backdrop of washout of the last two sessions of Parliament because of which key economic reform measures, including GST, have been pending and are expected to be pushed by the government during the upcoming Budget session starting on February 23.
“There are many leaders and parties even in the Opposition who oppose Modi, the BJP and the government but they want Parliament to run and carry out is business. But one family is so rigid that they do not allow the Rajya Sabha to function and let the nation’s agenda of development to be taken forward because people of the country have defeated them,” Modi said.
Though the Prime Minister did not name the “family”, the reference was obviously to the Sonia Gandhi family. He listed a number of pending bills, including one for increasing the income ceiling for bonus to workers and the other related to river transport on Brahmaputra, and put the blame for their pendency squarely on Congress and particularly the Gandhi family.
“The country is not going to benefit from this politics of negativism and obstructionism. There is only one family with such a thinking, which has brought this kind of destruction."
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