New Delhi, May 6
Congress leader and Punjab Cabinet minister Navjot Singh Sidhu today attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for making false promises to the people in 2014 and said these promises were like bamboo — long but hollow.
Sidhu called the PM “liar-in-chief” saying none of the major flagship schemes of the government had attained the desired objectives. “The PM will drown in the wave of his own falsehoods,” Sidhu said listing details of a range of schemes and citing data to argue that none of the promises had been fulfilled.
He began by mentioning the PM’s pet Rs 20,000-crore Namami Gange project. “Water Resources Minister Nitin Gadkari had said 80 per cent work under the scheme will be completed by 2019. But what is the truth? Of this Rs 20,000 crore, only Rs 6,000 crore has been spent and 10 per cent sewage treatment plants installed,” Sidhu said , adding the Ganga is the most unclean in Varanasi, Modi’s constituency.
The other schemes for which he lambasted the PM were Digital India where he said of the 2.5 lakh villages which were to be connected with broadband by February 2019, only 1.1 lakh actually had the optic fibre cable laid as of today. Flanked by Overseas Congress chairman Sam Pitroda who earlier attacked the PM for targeting late Rajiv Gandhi, Sidhu made a special mention of the PM’s scheme of Sansad Adarsh Gram Yojana and said 78 per cent of the 786 MPs of the two Houses had not adopted any village.
“We also want to ask the PM about his two adopted villages in Varanasi — Jayapur and Nagepur — where only 400 toilets have been made and in most of them, cow dung is being stored,” asked Sidhu, wondering “with no scheme achieving its objective does the PM expect me to call him Raja Harishchandra?” — TNS
from The Tribune http://bit.ly/2VMKnB6
via Today’s News Headlines
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