Hyderabad: Accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of celebrating his two-year rule on a grand scale while ignoring the severe drought conditions in the country, leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge, on Saturday said he really failed to understand what was there to celebrate.
“What are the ‘great achievements’ of the Modi government in the last two years that it is celebrating? It has not done anything noteworthy except organising campaigns in different names,” Mr Kharge told newsmen at the Gandhi Bhavan here.
Terming Modi as a “tourist PM” and “NRI PM”, the Congress senior leader said that the NDA government has failed to tell the people what it has done for the country.
“It’s strange that on one hand, RBI governor says that the economic situation of the country is alarming and on the other, Union finance minister Arun Jaitley expresses confidence over the booming economy. Who is correct?” he asked.
Mr Kharge said that instead of monitoring the administration as the Prime Minister, Modi preferred to visit as many nations as he could during the last two years. “Why has he failed to bring back the black money stashed in foreign banks and distribute it to the youth as promised? Where are the two crore jobs he promised to the nation? It seems that achche din came only for Modi and his team, and not the people of the country; they continue to live in ‘bure din ki sarkar’,” Mr Kharge said.
He said government made its intentions very clear by not reducing the prices of petroleum products despite a sharp decline in the price of crude oil in international markets. The government saved more than Rs 1 lakh-crore due to this and is trying to project it as it was its achievement.
