Whitewashing will not work in NEET scam: Mallikarjun Kharge
New Delhi: The President’s address was held in Parliament on Thursday. After the address, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge said that listening to the President’s address written by the Modi government, it seemed as if Modi ji is trying his best to deny the mandate. The mandate was against him, because the people of the country rejected his slogan of crossing 400 and kept the BJP away from the figure of 272.
Kharge said that Modi ji is not ready to accept this. He is behaving as if nothing has changed,
but the truth is that the people of the country had asked for change.
He said that I will give a detailed response in my speech in the Rajya Sabha, but prima facie I want to say a few things. Whitewashing will not work in the NEET scam. In the last 5 years, at least 12 of the 66 recruitment exams conducted by NTA have been rigged and paper leaked, affecting more than 75 lakh youth. Modi government cannot escape its responsibility by merely saying that “we should rise above party politics”. Youth is demanding justice. Education Minister of Modi government will have to take responsibility for this. Every second youth of the country is unemployed and no concrete policy to remove unemployment has come out in the speech. Just talking does not solve the problem, decisive steps have to be taken for this.
He said that there is no mention of inflation even once in the entire speech. The prices of everyday food items have increased. The prices of flour, pulses, tomatoes, onions, milk, everything is sky high. The savings of families in the country are at the lowest level in 50 years. Violence has been going on continuously in Manipur for 13 months. 221 people have lost their lives, still 50,000 people are homeless. There has been a terrible railway accident and the plight of passengers in trains. The much-hyped “Kavach” security is currently installed on only two per cent of the tracks. In the last 10 years, there have been 2,262 terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir, in which 363 civilians were killed and 596 soldiers were martyred. In the last few years, attacks on Kashmiri Pandits have been a regular occurrence.
