New Delhi: Dubbing BJP's national executive meet in Bengaluru as "high drama sans any substance", Congress on Saturday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah of being "anti-farmer" even as it shot off 10 questions on pressing issues like the Land bill to the ruling dispensation.
"For all theatrics this government is nothing but a capitalist friendly and anti-farmer. Congress is surprised that a government, a party and its leadership is such expert at theatrics and verbal marketing.
"It is continuously misleading, rather than clearly articulating its stance on burning issues. During the last couple of days we have witnessed, what is now familiar, high drama sans any substance, on part of the Prime Minister, Amit Shah and the BJP," AICC communication department in-charge Randeep Singh Surjewala said in a statment in New Delhi.
Targeting Modi for "having refused to come out of the election campaign mode", he said that the Prime Minister has again resorted to "rhetorical promises devoid of any concrete action plan" to fulfil them.
"At his party's national executive Modi rather than answering the concrete questions that stare him and the nation in its face, chose to gloss over his government's embarrassing U-turns on various issues by again making high sounding but dodgy pronouncements like 'Antodaya Hamara Sankalp', 'Panchamrit', 'Chaturangi Kranti', 'Digital India', 'Skill Development' and 'Make in India'.
"The PM and the BJP would have done well, to outline in their resolutions at the national executive, as to what plan of action do they have to achieve 'Antodaya'? Does Antodaya entail grabbing land from poor hapless and marginal farmers without their consent and give it away to Industrialist friends who funded his campaign?," Surjewala said.
Some of the questions that the Congress posed centred around the land acquistioin issue giving a clear indication that the party is not going to bring down the decibel of its protest on the issue.
"Why is the Government steamrolling the anti-farmer Land bill? Will the Government agree upon retaining the 'SIA' and Consent clauses of the 2013 Land Act- provisions that form the soul of the Act? Why isn't the Government coming out with a "Land Use Policy" and a "Land Management Authority" to deal with the issue of Land Acquisition, as promised in their manifesto?
What is the hurry? Is it the pressure from some lobby with vested interest? When, if ever, will the Government implement its declared promise of fixing Minimum Support Prices that are 50 percent more than the cost of a farmer's input? Will the compensation paid to farmers who've suffered crop damage due to rain and hail remain Rs 200/acre or will it be enhanced? When will the Government implement the Swaminathan Commission report?," the party asked.
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