Throw light on steps to boost economy: Opposition to PM

New Delhi: Opposition parties have said that while the ‘light-a-lamp’ exhortation by the PM may have its symbolic value, what the nation is now really looking forward from the PM is for ideas for dealing with the post-lockdown economic, health and social challenges and a vision for recouping the nation amid the Covid-19 meltdown.

Expressing his disappointment about PM Modi’s brief TV message on Friday, Congress parliamentarian Shashi Tharoor tweeted, “Listened to the Pradhan Showman. Nothing about how to ease people’s pain, their burdens, their financial anxieties. No vision of the future or sharing the issues he is weighing in deciding about the post-lockdown. Just a feel-good moment curated by India’s Photo-Op PrimeMinister”.




Former Union minister and Congress leader Kapil Sibal too minced no words in expressing his disappointment about the PM speak: “Learnt nothing about government’s steps to 1) contain the virus, 2) protect our medical practitioners, 3) provide testing kits, 4) reach food and supplies to the poor, 5) finance migrant labourers and the jobless. Light the ‘Diya’ of reason Not that of superstition”, he tweeted.

Trinamool Congress’ Rajya Sabha member-elect Dinesh Trivedi said since the lockdown can’t be a lasting solution, what will now be important in preparing the nation to deal with the Covid-19 challenges is the vision that the prime minister and his government will display in strengthening the fields of medication and economic revival.