Akali MP from Bathinda Harsimrat Kaur Badal on Sunday gave a clarion call to Punjabis to join hands and launch a nationwide stir at the National Capital to protest against the anti-nation policies of the Congress-led UPA Government.
“UPA is now trying to blame its policy paralysis on outside factors including the tapering of reserves by United States and even Syrian crisis,” she said in an official statement. She added that the people would see through these excuses adding “how can any so-called global crisis be responsible for the Government”s own policy paralysis”.
Asserting that the economic downslide under the UPA rule seemed irreversible, she said that there was no hope of any improvement under the present dispensation with neither Prime Minister Manmohan Singh nor Finance Minister P Chidambaram coming out with any road map to take the country out of the present economic crisis.
“The Prime Minister, in fact, is on record saying that this good monsoon is expected to improve things,” she said adding that only solution left was dismissal of the Central Government and imposition of financial emergency.
Explaining how the situation had turned bad to worse under UPA rule, Harsimrat said that import of capital goods worth 587 billon dollars, which India could have made in its own backyard, drained out a third of India”s GDP under the very nose of the UPA regime. “The country”s current account deficit which was eight billion dollars in 2007 has shot up to 90 billion dollars now due to the flawed UPA policies”, she said.
She added, “Instead of taking policy decisions to reduce the effects of the economic crisis, the government is going in for hefty hikes in the petrol and diesel rates. This is adding insult to injury.” Recalling Prime Minister”s recent comments in which he claimed that his critics were targeting him for one bad year, Bathinda MP said: “It is not only one year but the last nine and-a-half years which have been bad under Congress rule. Projects worth 550 billion US dollars have been stalled during the tenure of the UPA,” she added.