FM Sitharaman, BJP counter industrialist Rahul Bajaj as his 'fear' remark triggers debate

A debate has broken out as veteran industrialist Rahul Bajaj on Saturday in an award function told Home Minister Amit Shah that 're is an atmosphere of fear', and 'people are afraid to criticise government'. Slamming him for his remarks, BJP has called out his selective criticism and has said that his claims are false. Taking to Twitter, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that Home Minister Amit Shah dresses and answers questions and criticisms. BJP's IT cell he Amit Malviya accused him of favouring Congress government and its leer Rahul Gandhi.

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Home Minister responds on Bajaj's criticism

Earlier on Saturday, Bajaj said: "When UPA II was in power, we could criticise anyone. You are doing good work, but despite that, we don’t have confidence that you will appreciate if we criticise you openly are heard and answered/dressed. (Aap achchha kaam kar rahe hain, uske ba bhi, hum aapko criticise openly karein, confidence nahin hai ki you will appreciate).

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Answering to that, Home Minister Amit Shah clearly stated that re is need to fear and criticism are heard by government. Shah said, "If you say re is a certain kind of atmosphere, we will have to make efforts to improve it. But I would like to point out that re is need for anybody to be afraid. People are criticising and y can criticise. government has run in most transparent way, and we have fear of any kind of opposition. If anyone criticises us, we will look at merit of same and make efforts to improve ourselves."

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