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Opposition slams UPA's performance on third anniversary
Tuesday May 22, 2012 11:17:21 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Communist Party of
India-Marxist (CPI-M) Tuesday slammed the Congress-led UPA-II
government's performance on its third anniversary, saying it had
nothing significant to show.
While CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury said inflation was rampant and
the economy was deteriorating badly, BJP leader Ravi Shankar
Prasad said there was not a single concrete action taken by the
government that had brought a smile on the face of the common man.
The United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government Tuesday completed
three years of its second term.
"Not only growth rate, manufacturing is sluggish for second year
running. On the question of tackling corruption, new scams are
coming out," Yechury told media persons.
He said major initiatives announced by the government as its first
100 days agenda had not been fulfilled.
The UPA government had promised to bring the food security bill
and the women's reservation bill in the first 100 days but that
did not happen, he said. "Nothing of significance to improve
people's lives happened."
BJP leader Prasad said India's growth story had been impacted and
industry leaders were complaining about lack of decisiveness in
the government.
He accused Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of "incapacity" to take
decisions as "real power lies somewhere else".
Another BJP leader Shahnawaz Hussain said the government had
nothing to celebrate about.
"Why is it holding the dinner? This is a headless government,
there are contradictions within the party, there is a tug of war
with the allies... government has totally failed on economic
front. Corruption is the government's gift to the nation," Hussain
said.
He said: "We hope they do not flash manipulated data with big
pictures in newspapers tomorrow, specially since they are
following austerity. The government has done Ph in corruption. Dr.
Manmohan Singh's government is the most corrupt government in the
world."
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