Post budget, BJP has its job cut out
The BJP is gearing up to turn the tables on its adversary,Cong-led UPA by taking refuge behind the twin spectres of fast-increasing job-cuts and unreasonably high prices of food items.
By ET Bureau |
NEW DELHI: As the Congress-led UPA attempts to dust up its credentials as the main votary of the aam aadmi (common man) in an attempt to seek another five years in office at the Centre, the principal Opposition party, the BJP, is gearing up to turn the tables on its adversary by taking refuge behind the twin spectres of fast-increasing job-cuts and unreasonably high prices of food items.
Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha L K Advani, while addressing the BJP parliamentary party here on Tuesday morning, asked his party colleagues to educate the people of the betrayal of aam aadmi at the hands of the Congress-led UPA government.
Both the presidential address and the interim budget have eulogised the government���s efforts to better the lives of the common man,��� he said, adding, ���The fact is that he has never felt more betrayed as he battles high prices and the growing fear of job-cuts.������
The BJP leader made it clear that the government���s track record on the economic front would form one of the main campaign planks of the NDA in the coming electoral battle ��� a fact which was underlined by the party in its response to the interim budget on Monday.
``The UPA government claims to have ruled the country for the last five years in the name of the aam aadmi, and yet it is the aam aadmi who has suffered the most during this regime because of its sheer mismanagement of the economy. The aam aadmi has suffered like never before on account of unbridled price-rise of essential commodities which even today continues to rise in double-digits, loss of livelihood, economic insecurity and insecurity of life and limb,������ a joint statement issued here on Monday by Mr Jaswant Singh, Mr Yashwant Sinha and Mr Arun Shourie said.
The BJP leaders cited the sluggish pace of progress in crucial sectors such as health, education, rural development and infrastructure, and employment generation to drive home their point that the common man���s woes had remained a poll rhetoric for the Congress.
``Far from generating gainful employment and promoting investment, it (the UPA government) is leaving behind an economy in which at least a crore people, who till recently had jobs are now without work, and investment is collapsing all across the economy,������ the BJP leaders contended.
The principal Opposition party cited a CAG report to puncture the government���s claims on the NREGS, one of the flagship rural development schemes unveiled by the UPA government. ``While the government had promised a hundred days of employment to the breadwinner in each family at the minimum wage, its own report and that of the CAG show that in fact it is only in 14% of the cases that the promised days of employment have been provided. Moreover, there have been widespread corruption and defalcation,������ the party noted with concern.
Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha L K Advani, while addressing the BJP parliamentary party here on Tuesday morning, asked his party colleagues to educate the people of the betrayal of aam aadmi at the hands of the Congress-led UPA government.
Both the presidential address and the interim budget have eulogised the government���s efforts to better the lives of the common man,��� he said, adding, ���The fact is that he has never felt more betrayed as he battles high prices and the growing fear of job-cuts.������
The BJP leader made it clear that the government���s track record on the economic front would form one of the main campaign planks of the NDA in the coming electoral battle ��� a fact which was underlined by the party in its response to the interim budget on Monday.
``The UPA government claims to have ruled the country for the last five years in the name of the aam aadmi, and yet it is the aam aadmi who has suffered the most during this regime because of its sheer mismanagement of the economy. The aam aadmi has suffered like never before on account of unbridled price-rise of essential commodities which even today continues to rise in double-digits, loss of livelihood, economic insecurity and insecurity of life and limb,������ a joint statement issued here on Monday by Mr Jaswant Singh, Mr Yashwant Sinha and Mr Arun Shourie said.
The BJP leaders cited the sluggish pace of progress in crucial sectors such as health, education, rural development and infrastructure, and employment generation to drive home their point that the common man���s woes had remained a poll rhetoric for the Congress.
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``Far from generating gainful employment and promoting investment, it (the UPA government) is leaving behind an economy in which at least a crore people, who till recently had jobs are now without work, and investment is collapsing all across the economy,������ the BJP leaders contended.
The principal Opposition party cited a CAG report to puncture the government���s claims on the NREGS, one of the flagship rural development schemes unveiled by the UPA government. ``While the government had promised a hundred days of employment to the breadwinner in each family at the minimum wage, its own report and that of the CAG show that in fact it is only in 14% of the cases that the promised days of employment have been provided. Moreover, there have been widespread corruption and defalcation,������ the party noted with concern.
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