 "Congress leaders Mallikarjun Kharge, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Kapil Sibal and Randeep Surjewala during a press conference on completion of two years by Modi government, at party headquarters in New Delhi")
On a day when the Bharatiya Janata party-led government completed two years in office, the Congress party questioned the various celebrations, alleging the record was only of “empty talk and hollow promises”.
Dubbing the Narendra Modi government “fraudulently dynamic and dynamically fraudulent”, it fielded senior spokesperson in both Delhi and across state capitals to counter the “government propaganda”.
Unveiling its 'Do saal desh ka bura haal' (two years of dire national straits) campaign, party leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said, “The government is surviving because of newspapers and television channels and its media publicity. It has nothing to show by way of work except bombast.”
Congress leaders Mallikarjun Kharge, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Kapil Sibal and Randeep Surjewala during a press conference on completion of two years by Modi government, at party headquarters in New Delhi
Former Union minister and party spokesperson Kapil Sibal challenged the PM or anyone in the government to a public debate on what it had achieved. Contrasting the predecessor government, led by its Manmohan Singh, he said: “Dr Singh did not speak; his work spoke. This prime minister does nothing but speak. He has nothing to show in terms of work.”
“Why are you celebrating two years, what have you achieved? Is Benares Swachh ? Has everyone got jobs? Have farmer suicides stopped, are government banks giving credit? Are voters happy with price rise?" volleyed Sibal.
The Congress faulted the Modi government on multiple fronts. Its foreign policy, it said, as on Pakistan, was “consistently inconsistent”, with no apparent application of thought. Job creation, when seen against its government's record, was miserable, more so when seen in the backdrop of the promises made to voters in the 2014 poll campaign.
The only credits to the government, it declared, were the generation of social tension, of campus unrest, clamps on free speech, overthrowing of state governments. And, took a jibe at the government’s slogan, asking “Kiska saath, kiska vikaas”?
Responmding to a query on the Italian marines being let off, Congress' communication chief Randeep Surjewala said: "It is a great injustice to the family of deceased fishermen of Kerala. It also reaffirms and establishes prima facie the allegations that Narendra Modi met the Italian PM and was cutting an underhand deal to malign the Congress leadership and party, in lieu of letting the marines go scot free."
The Congress yesterday had lambasted the government for having Amitabh Bachchan, named in the Panama papers, as one of the hosts of its gala celebration at India Gate.
