The BJP has decided to take up nationwide protest programmes against the Congress-led UPA government’s economic reforms with the slogan, ‘Congress Ko Hatao, Desh Ko Bachao’, from October 10 to November 11.
Announcing this at a press conference here on Saturday, party senior leader M Venkaiah Naidu said the party’s Mahila Morcha would organise protests against the Centre’s decision to cap the supply of subsidised cooking gas cylinders to six a year and to increase the price of a cylinder.
The BJP will release for public debate a document on the additional financial burden imposed by the government on the common man in the name of economic reforms. The party’s cadre will explain to people about the negative impact of economic reforms on market prices.
Naidu said the Congress did not have the moral right to seek the support of opposition parties in the implementation of economic reforms. “When in opposition that party vehemently opposes reforms but shows keenness to pursue reforms when in power.’’
When the BJP-led NDA was in power the then leader of the opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Manmohan Singh, and several other Congress leaders including Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi vociferously opposed foreign direct investments (FDI)in retail trade and insurance sectors and described the move as anti-national. They also said that such economic reforms would only increase unemployment in the country, the BJP leader recalled and released copies of the statements made by Manmohan Singh and Dasmunsi to support his contention. “But why is the Congress talking of economic reforms after eight years of its rule?” he asked and said the Congress did not have clarity, commitment, credibility and sincerity on economic reforms.
Claiming that the NDA government had handed over a healthy economy to the UPA government but it failed to improve the nation’s economy. He recalled that the then finance minister P Chidambaram praised the NDA rule by saying that it protected the fundamentals in the economic sector.
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