Senior Congress leader and former Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia has criticised the BJP Governments at the Centre and in the State on various issues including alleged atrocities on Dalits, Kashmir impasse and Vyapam scam.
While talking to media persons here on Wednesday, Scindia said, “The BJP talked of ‘Congress-mukt Bharat’ (Congress free India) but atrocities on SC/STs like the one at Una in Gujarat suggest that it wants a ‘Dalit-Tribal mukt Bharat’ (reserved categories and tribals free India).”
The Guna MP also said that the Narendra Modi Government has failed on all counts and joblessness among young people has shot up. The Government had promised to generate two crore jobs annually but not even two per cent of the figure could materialise, he alleged.
Price rise and inflation is hitting commoners hard and the situation in Jammu and Kashmir has worsened, he said. “What we are witnessing today is a result of the marriage of inconvenience between PDP and BJP.” Scindia said that while Kashmir was under curfew, PM was silent for over a month.
“This is the Government that let the ISI enter Pathankot airbase. Such is the sad state of affairs when it comes to internal security”, he said.
On the Vyapam scam that rattled Madhya Pradesh, the former Union Minister said he was hopeful that the guilty won’t be spared.
“The Supreme Court has chided CBI over the delay and lackadaisical investigation (in the case),” he added. To a query, he said the entire governance in MP has collapsed. “The State is performing poorly on key social indicators.
Hospitals are in a bad shape, schools are without teachers and the investment scenario is discouraging, despite hollow claims of the Government.”