People are fed up with UPA regime: Nitin Gadkari

MUMBAI: People were fed up with the incompetent UPA regime and wanted a change, BJP president Nitin Gadkari said here today.

Wrong economic decisions, bad and corrupt governance and visionless policies of the UPA 1 and -2 had damaged the country, Gadkari said. "People are fed up," he added.

He was speaking at a function to mark `Kargil Vijay Diwas', where he unveiled a wax statue of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

Gadkari referred to Vajpayee-led NDA government's initiatives such as Gram Sadak Yojana and highways development project.

"Today, FDI has stopped (coming) in the country and whatever has come, is going back. Even our own capital is going out," Gadkari said.

The country was passing through difficult times and lacked credible leadership, the BJP president said. "Country is on the brink of destruction (`barbadi')," he said.

Targeting the Congress-NCP government in his home state, Maharashtra, he said the coalition had ruined the state. "There is a debt burden of Rs 2.40 lakh crore, no irrigation, farmers are committing suicides, there is no electricity."

Cotton growers in Maharashtra were committing suicides, which was unseen the neighboring Gujarat, which too had cotton cultivation, Gadkari pointed out.