left parties on Friday criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech with CPI(M) questioning the announcement that the Government will abolish the Planning Commission while CPI charged that he failed to talk about empowering people.
“There is a lot of gap between the walk and the talk. Always these yojnas (schemes) are implemented by the Planning Commission. Now you (Modi) said you will dismantle it. So who is going to do it (implement schemes) and who is going to monitor it,” said CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury.
CPI general secretary D Raja said that although Modi talked about poverty, he failed to talk about empowering people in the proper sense. “The Prime Minister, while attacking poverty, did not talk about empowering people in the proper sense... About the responsibility of the Government in fighting inflation, unearthing black money,” Raja said.