ASK GOVT TO SEEK FRESH MANDATE: BJP TO PREZ
Saturday, 31 August 2013 | PNS | New Delhi
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After having crossed swords with the Prime Minister in Parliament, the BJP on Friday met President Pranab Mukherjee to urge him to advise the Congress-led UPA dispensation to seek a fresh mandate, that too, by advancing the general elections.
It also pointed how the UPA Government had crossed the ‘limit of irresponsibility’ by blaming Mukherjee’s role as Finance Minister for the current economic crisis.
The delegation led by LK Advani submitted a memorandum to the President stating: “The country can ill-afford at this moment of crisis a Government which is paralysed, a Prime Minister who never speaks, a Finance Minister (P Chidambaram) who wrongly blames his immediate predecessor (Pranab Mukherjee) who is unable to defend himself, a supreme leader who does not care about where the money will come from and a bureaucracy which is frozen and unable to act.
“We have come to urge you, therefore, to end the prevailing uncertainty by advising this Government to seek a fresh mandate at the earliest and not later than the State elections due in the next three months.”
Advani told reporters after the meeting, “It would be in the best interest of the country if it gets rid of the present Government and people are given a fresh opportunity to elect a new Government”.
The free fall of the Indian Rupee against the US Dollar, the BJP delegation argued, was only a symptom of the deeper malaise afflicting the Indian economy. They claimed fundamentals of the Indian economy have been ruined because of the reckless policies of the Government.
The BJP blamed Chidambaram for throwing out of window the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget Management Act during
2008-09 and allowing fiscal deficit of the Government to rise exponentially.
It accused the Government of being in denial. “Not satisfied with this it blames everybody else for the current crisis except itself. It blames the Opposition, the State Governments, the Reserve Bank of India and the global factors,” the delegation told the President.
It added, “The crisis which afflicts the economy and the country today is primarily a crisis of confidence. We have a Government, which is unable to take any decision, provide any leadership, or a ray of hope for the future. It is mired in humongous corruption. Even the Supreme Court now suspects that it is trying to destroy evidence by making the incriminating files go missing”.
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