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The Goa Congress party on Saturday lashed out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for celebrating the completion of four years of the Modi-led BJP government at the Centre saying there is nothing to celebrate yet as they have failed to fulfill their promises.
Congress spokesperson Ramakant Khalap, while addressing the press, pointed to a host of unfulfilled promises, especially on the employment issue.
“The BJP promised 2-crore jobs every year but created only 4.16 lakh jobs in 2016-17,” Khalap said adding that on the contrary 15-lakh people lost their jobs due to demonetization.
Referring to the government claims that they added 70-lakh people to the formal workforce, Khalap said that those 70-lakh people are existing employees, who due to the CBDT circular were provided with an unprecedented amnesty and EPFO benefits which they were not getting earlier.
“Since the Modi government has come to power, nothing has been fulfilled. There are zero exports done from the country, the industrial growth had dropped in 2018 and the recent issue which the people are agitated about is the soaring fuel rates due to which the common men is suffering the most,” Khalap said.
“The Modi government runs on a culture of ‘A scam a day’,” Khalap said.
With BJP in power, the number of fraud cases involves a whopping Rs 1 lakh crore which has been reported by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the Congress said.
The Congress also accused the BJP of weakening the Lokpal, Whistleblowers Bill and the RTI Act.
Also adding that the Modi governments Pakistan policy swings like a wild pendulum, Khalap says “Pakistan or China do not care two hoots to what the Modi government has to say.”
Violence continues in the country and the government does not plan on looking into the matter, he added.
The Congress party also brought up what they termed was the BJP’s mindset of ‘anti-Dalits’ and ‘anti- Adivasis’. “The quantity and the number of horrific violence against the SC/ST has been immense,” the Congress has said adding that the BJP’s slogan of Beti Bachao has also now become a threat.
In the state of Goa, the Congress says that they do not go to the people to gain votes but to gain the trust of the people so that during an election, the public can elect a public-oriented party, a party that will instill brotherhood among the fellow citizens of the state and country.
