The party claimed that the government failed to keep the assurances made to farmers, especially those regarding doubling their income
KRC TIMES Assam Bureau
Guwahati: Addressing a press conference in Guwahati All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary Ajay Maken ripped apart Modi government alleging that in the past 9 years the ruling regime has only spread hatred across the country for the sake of getting political mileage.
“We have placed just nine questions before the government. We are yet to get a reply. We know it very well that our questions will fall flat on deaf ears of the establishment. Still Congress will continue to ask these questions because we believe in democracy and in a democracy an opposition party has a very important role to play,” Maken said. “We know that they don’t want to address serious issues like unemployment, price rise and will rather try to divert attention to frivolous matters.”
With inflation and unemployment featuring in the nine questions, the Congress asked “Why is public property being sold to Modi’s friends even as economic disparities are increasing?”
The Congress alleged that “rampant corruption” was prevailing in BJP-ruled states, the saffron party was “practising politics of revenge” against opposition parties and “weakening” Constitutional values and democratic institutions.
The Congress also accused the BJP-led Central government of “compromising” on national security and “leaving” Indian territory to China.
The party claimed that the government failed to keep the assurances made to farmers, especially those regarding doubling their income.
The Congress maintained that the ruling dispensation is “deliberately using politics of hatred for electoral gains”, “methodically destroying foundations of social justice”, reducing budgets of welfare schemes, and enacting “restrictive rules” against the poor and tribals.
Taking a swipe at Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) leaders tom tomming on Covid management, Maken said the whole country has seen how the government managed Covid.
“Hospitals were facing acute shortage of oxygen cylinders. The basic infrastructure of our health care was exposed. I don’t need to elaborate it further,” Maken quipped.
