While chairing the meeting of the Congress Parliamentary Party (CPP) for the first time, Rahul Gandhi had launched a scathing attack on the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said that, he is a “prisoner of his own image” and his policies are based on television ratings.
Mr. Rahul Gandhi, said: “The Congress never gave India a Prime Minister who was a prisoner of his own image. We never gave India a Prime Minister who was ready to inflict such tremendous suffering on the people of India to protect his own persona. We never gave India a Prime Minister who based his entire policy making strategy on TRPs. We never gave India a Prime Minister who bypassed the experience of those sitting in the institutions. The country has suffered tremendous damage as a result of the vanity and incompetence of our Prime Minister.”
“Today, the same person who used to ridicule us sits silently while Kashmir burns. Narendra Modi will be judged by history as the man who gifted massive political space to anti-India forces by creating an opportunistic political alliance between the BJP and the PDP. He has created the political vacuum that gives the terrorists space to operate,” he said.
Mr. Rahul Gandhi said, “Our brave soldiers and their families are paying the price. Eighty-five soldiers have been martyred. That is the highest number of men we have lost in almost a decade.”
He said that, “policy cannot be based on adhoc responses to events. The price of not thinking actions through is simply too high. It is high time the government develops a coherent strategy. We were told that the idea… was to stop Pakistan from cross border attacks. There have been 21 major attacks and hundreds of ceasefire violations since the strikes”.
Mr. Rahul Gandhi said, “Terrorists walked into the most highly defended Army base in Jammu, straight into the officers mess and murdered our officers and men in cold blood. Is the government not responsible for maintaining the security of our bases? Are these young men just statistics destined to gather dust in the records of the Government of India? Does the government not owe them an apology?”
Rahul accused that “he decided to experiment with the financial future of 1.3 billion people. Instead of attacking black money, he attacked the very foundations of our economy. Even his chief economic advisor was not informed. The outgoing chief of the RBI warned him of the impending devastation, but he did not listen. As per the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), the Prime Minister's impromptu experiment has already cost India Rs. 1.28 lakh crores in lost wages, cost of printing and logistics.”
He alleged that, the BJP units in States were told of the Prime Minister's decision beforehand: “The Bengal unit made large deposits just before the decision. The Bihar unit made massive investments in real estate just prior to the decision.”
By Premji
