Congress' 'dangerous' manifesto has ideas to divide India: Arun Jaitley

The Congress this morning promised to provide Rs 72,000 a year to the poorest families and fill 22 lakh government vacancies if his party won the Lok Sabha elections and accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of wrecking the economy.

Finance minister Arun Jaitley

Congress making dangerous promises, says Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on the party manifesto.

Jaitley said Congress does not deserve even single vote for promises like doing away with sedition law.

Congress failed to mention plight of Kashmiri pandits in its manifesto, says Jaitley.

New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday tore into Congress over its manifesto which was released earlier in the day. Briefing reporters in the national capital, Jaitley said, "some of the ideas are positively dangerous in the Congress manifesto. They are for an agenda for the balkanization  of India." On Congress promising legal amendments on AFSPA, sedition and defamation, Jaitley said that 'Congress does not deserve even single vote for promises like doing away with sedition law.' "This  is to protect Maoists & Jehadis  and encourage terrorists so that they get bail soon..this will give rise to attacks on CRPF and police personnel. Under the criminal law, jawans now will have to face cases," the finance minister asserted. Jaitley accused Rahul Gandhi of making implementable and dangerous promises out of ignorance. "I am sure, the country will not be in a mood to oblige him." "Even though there was a drafting committee, but it appears that some of the important points have been drafted by the Congress president's friend in Tukde Tukde gang when it deals with J&K," he added. He lashed out at the Congress for not mentioning anything about Kashmiri pandits who faced the brunt of ethnic cleansing in Jammu & Kashmir. On the plight of farmers in the country, Jaitley lambasted them saying there's no tokenism done on farm loan waiver in states where the party is in power. The Congress this morning promised to provide Rs 72,000 a year to the poorest families and fill 22 lakh government vacancies if his party won the Lok Sabha elections and accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of wrecking the economy. Gandhi said that Modi had ridiculed the MGNREGA scheme by dubbing it bogus and useless but the nation knows how beneficial it was. "Today everyone knows how much it helped the country. So now we want to guarantee jobs for 150 days, instead of 100 days, under the scheme." On BJP's criticism that the NYAY scheme was "not workable", Gandhi said: "I agree it is not doable for the BJP. But it is doable for the Congress."

Published at : 02 Apr 2019 04:44 PM (IST)

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