Cong: ‘Suit boot ki sarkar’ only for big corporates

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 20

Lashing out at the suit boot ki sarkar, the Congress today accused the Modi Government of being ‘pro-corporate’, alleging that ‘achhe din’ had only come for the corporate world while the ‘aam aadmi’ had been left to fend for himself.

“Narendra Modi’s suit boot ki sarkar, whose only policy is corporate ka saath, khud ka vikas (working for corporates) is mercilessly demolishing the edifice of India’s foundational values of inclusive and equitable development in its insatiable quest to appease a few crony capitalists and trading partners,” Congress leader Girija Vyas said.

Addressing the media, she hit out at Modi government on the Land Bill and other issues, saying that the “Congress will oppose any anti-people and anti-farmer moves of this regime.”

Asked to rate the BJP-led regime, which is completing one year in office, Vyas gave it “one mark” on a scale of 10. While Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi had graded the Modi government’s performance at “zero out of 10”, Vyas said in her earlier days she was considered as a “liberal teacher and keeping that in view, I will give the government 1 mark (on a scale of 10).”

“The Modi government has slashed the social sector spending by Rs1,75,122 crore in one year alone — by way of Rs66,222 crore cut in grants on social sector Schemes, Rs5,900 crore cut by closing down the Backward Regions Grant Fund and Rs1,03,000 crore cut by not implementing the Food Security Programme targeted at 67 per cent of the population,” she said.

Taking a dig at Prime Minister’s tours to foreign nations, she said: “Time will tell what is gained out of it... time will tell, how much foreign investments come”.