Chidambaram calls Modi govt claim of 100% electrification "complete jumla"
April 30, 2018 20:05
Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram today said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's claim of achieving 100 per cent village electrification is a "complete jumla" and accused him of taking credit for work done by the previous regimes.
Addressing the Youth Congress national executive meeting, the former finance minister also alleged that the government was "destroying" jobs and the economy and said unemployment will be the "number one issue" against the present regime in 2019 elections.
The government had said yesterday that all villages in the country now have access to electricity and this target has been achieved ahead of the deadline.
In a tweet, Prime Minister Modi had said, "28th April 2018 will be remembered as a historic day in the development journey of India. Yesterday, we fulfilled a commitment due to which the lives of several Indians will be transformed forever! I am delighted that every single village of India now has access to electricity."
"That is a jumla again, a complete jumla," Chidambaram said.
Stating that there are some 5.97 lakh villages in the country, Chidambaram accused the Modi government of taking credit for complete rural electrification although the UPA government electrified lakhs of villages in the country during 2004-2014.
"It's like somebody makes the ice cream puts it in a cup, someone comes and puts a cherry on it and says I made this ice cream. He comes in, electrifies last 18,000 villages and says that its a great achievement of my government. I have electrified all the villages," the Congress leader said.
He also attacked Modi government for "destroying" jobs with measures like demonetisation and GST, claiming the two steps led to "massive" unemployment in the country.
-- PTI
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