Manmohan takes swipe at Jaitley
9 March 2013 6:47 AM IST
Continuing with his aggressive stance, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday took a dig at Leader of Opposition, Rajya Sabha, Arun Jaitley asking him to be objective and respectful when it comes to accessing the government.
‘Arun Jaitley should be more objective in assessing work of the UPA government, whether agriculture, growth rate or industrialisation as the record of the UPA speaks for itself and we don’t have to go in more details,’ said Singh. Attacking the opposition, the Prime Minister said when men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
Replying to the debate in Rajya Sabha on Motion of Thanks to the President’s address, Singh refuted the BJP’s claim that NDA government had performed better and cited figures in various sectors to show the country had grown much faster during the nine years of UPA rule.
‘The Leader of Opposition is right in saying that India needs growth rate of 7-8 percent to get rid of poverty. He is also right when he said it will require rapid pace of industrialisation. I would like to remind this House this is precisely the intent of the UPA government,’ said Singh. Voicing concern over the slowdown of economy during the current fiscal, the Prime Minister said, ‘As the Finance Minister said we do not believe growth rate will stay where it is today, we will use all our policies to push up growth rate. We hope and it is our confidence that in two to three years economy will bounce back to high growth of 7 to 8 per cent.’
The Prime Minister stressed that the allocation for social sector schemes went up during the UPA rule in comparison to the NDA period. ‘UPA govt focussed on social spending... We are proud of expanding expenditure in social sector. We are proud of making sincere efforts to fulfil the desire of the poor,’ said Singh.
He added during NDA rule, there was token provisions for social sector programmes but the allocation was small. He accepted there will be economic difficulties as large sums were being spent for first time on social sector schemes.
‘Arun Jaitley should be more objective in assessing work of the UPA government, whether agriculture, growth rate or industrialisation as the record of the UPA speaks for itself and we don’t have to go in more details,’ said Singh. Attacking the opposition, the Prime Minister said when men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
Replying to the debate in Rajya Sabha on Motion of Thanks to the President’s address, Singh refuted the BJP’s claim that NDA government had performed better and cited figures in various sectors to show the country had grown much faster during the nine years of UPA rule.
‘The Leader of Opposition is right in saying that India needs growth rate of 7-8 percent to get rid of poverty. He is also right when he said it will require rapid pace of industrialisation. I would like to remind this House this is precisely the intent of the UPA government,’ said Singh. Voicing concern over the slowdown of economy during the current fiscal, the Prime Minister said, ‘As the Finance Minister said we do not believe growth rate will stay where it is today, we will use all our policies to push up growth rate. We hope and it is our confidence that in two to three years economy will bounce back to high growth of 7 to 8 per cent.’
The Prime Minister stressed that the allocation for social sector schemes went up during the UPA rule in comparison to the NDA period. ‘UPA govt focussed on social spending... We are proud of expanding expenditure in social sector. We are proud of making sincere efforts to fulfil the desire of the poor,’ said Singh.
He added during NDA rule, there was token provisions for social sector programmes but the allocation was small. He accepted there will be economic difficulties as large sums were being spent for first time on social sector schemes.
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