Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Monday accused the Modi Government of destroying the informal sector of the economy and charged the BJP-led NDA Government with making attempts to break this sector.
Citing “demonetisation, erratic GST and the improper pandemic related lockdown” as three examples of government’s attempt to destroy the informal sector that provides 90 per cent jobs to people, Rahul called upon the entire country to unite and fight against this.
“The BJP Government has attacked the informal structure. There is an attempt to turn you into a slave. The government has been attacking the informal sector over the past six years. I am giving you three massive examples right now- Demonetisation, wrong GST and Lockdown,” Rahul said in a new video series on the economy.
“Don’t think the lockdown was unplanned. Don’t think it was done at the last minute. The aim of these three decisions was to destroy our informal sector,” he alleged.
He said the informal sector, which comprises the poor, farmers and small traders, has a lot of money which the Government cannot touch. “They want to break this sector and extort this money from them,” he charged.
Rahul, who has earlier done a series of talk shows with leading economists, said the effects of this attack on the informal sector will be seen soon. “You are the ones who run this country, You take us forward and there is a conspiracy against you. You are being cheated and there is an attempt to turn you into slaves. We have to understand this attack and the entire country has to unite to fight against this,” he said in the 4-minute video “Let’s talk economy”.
The former Congress president said in 2008, the world was hit by an economic storm and it affected the entire world, the US, Japan, China and everywhere. He said in the US banks fell, corporations fell and companies shut down and banks also fell in Europe, but India was unaffected and the UPA Government was in power at the time.