Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, who is on a two-day visit to his parliamentary constituency here, on Thursday said unemployment is on the rise in the country due to demonetisation and GST imposed by the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre.
The fake news industry has grown by leaps and bounds under the tutelage of the BJP.
Kharge, who is the Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, also posed a volley of questions to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and asserted that poor and middle class are “suffering” under the present government.
The Congress has been critical of the government's move of demonetisation, when on November 8 in 2016 the Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 were spiked.
He said PM Modi felt that the effort was to tackle black money and if a bigger denomination note comes then the capacity to hoard will increase.
The correct response on the part of the Union government would have been to allow those who wanted to go back to their villages to do so in an orderly fashion. This would have involved some increase in infection but not much.
Congress said the decision of lockdown came without any prior preparation.
The Prime Minister yesterday urged citizens to switch off the lights at their homes and light up lamps, candles or mobile phone torches for nine minutes at 9 pm on 5 April to display the country's “collective resolve” to defeat coronavirus.
Perhaps the Government could have given itself two days to think out solutions to the problems likely to be unleashed by the lockdown and a reasonable notice should have been given to the public to get ready for the lockdown. Unfortunately, the current closure is eerily similar to demonetisation ~ firstly, no time was given to the public to prepare and secondly, rules of the game are fluid, evolving as the situation unfolds.
Speaking at Shri Ram Economic Summit organised by the economics department of Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC), the Rajya Sabha MP said that ordinarily, the explanation for the failing economy should have come from the government.
