Things don't move without commission in BJP states: Scindia

Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia today alleged that things do not move without paying commission in BJP-ruled states.
Scindia, while addressing a gathering of youths at Congress' 'Yuva Samvad' programme here, also attacked the BJP government in Gujarat for failing in the fields of education and health care, adding that the state's gross state domestic product (GSDP) rate had also come down in recent years.
"The truth is that not even a single government school was opened (in Gujarat) in the last 22 years. The state is going back in terms of literacy rate. Twenty three per cent students cannot read a paragraph in Gujarati, 62 per cent fail in Mathematics, 63 per cent cannot read a passage of English," the Congress' chief whip in Lok Sabha said.

"The government is failing in its responsibility. Every year, four to five universities come up with the speed of a bullet train and the fees also grow at the speed of the bullet train. One has to pay deposit and capitation fee for education, even as 33 per cent faculty posts in technical education lie vacant," he said.
Referring to the Vyapam scam in Madhya Pradesh, his home state, Scindia said, "In a BJP-ruled state, education is a source of corruption. Vyapam is a scam that shows that a poor but talented youth cannot get job, but an incapable and rich kid will certainly get it".

The former Union minister said the BJP also did not add any health centre in the last 22 years of its rule in Gujarat, and there were only a few doctors in government hospitals and a few teachers in state-run schools.

When some people from the audience pointed out to him that patients in government hospitals were being referred to private facilities by doctors, Scindia said it was due to "commission".
"You do not understand. They say so because they have their commission fixed there. In BJP rule, nothing happens without commission...Commission agent number 1," he said.
Scindia slammed the Centre for failing to provide jobs to youths, and said moves like note-ban and GST hurt Surat textile and diamond industry, which provided jobs to a large number of youths.

"I would like to ask why Gujarat's (GSDP growth) is today stagnant at 6.7 per cent. Narendra Modi and Vijay Rupani will have to answer this. The main reason behind this is that the state loan is Rs 2.22 lakh crore, more than Rs 10,000 crore 22 years ago," he said.
Scindia said after demonetisation, the production of Surat textile industry, which produces four crore metres of cloth (annually), has gone down by 50 per cent.
"Similarly, 30 per cent of diamond industry in Surat, which offered jobs to 15 lakh people is closed. And note-ban? Kar diya ailan bina kisi plan (the announcement was made without any planning)," he said.