Rahul Gandhi chides Modi govt over privatisation plan for PSUs, hurls cronyism jibe

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi took an aim at Modi government over its planned drive to disinvest from public sector units, alleging that privatisation of state-run firms will do 'vikas' (development) to PM Modi's 'mitrons' (friends).

"Today, country is facing many disasters caused by Modi government, one of which is unnecessary privatization. youth want jobs but Modi government is destroying employment and investment by privatizing PSUs. Whose benefit?" Wayanad MP wrote in Hindi on Twitter Monday.

He n coined a rhyming phrase in Hindi: "Bas chand mitron ka vikas, jo hai Modi Ji ke khaas (Development to just a few friends who are special to Modi Ji)." "Stop Privatisation Save Govt Jobs," he added.

Earlier, he had hit out at Centre over issue of recruitment to government posts, alleging that Modi dispensation's thinking is "minimum government, maximum privatisation". With his tweet attacking government, Gandhi tagged a media report which said re would be a freeze on creation of new posts except with approval of expenditure department.  COVID-19 pandemic is just an excuse and intention is to make government offices "free" of permanent staff, he alleged.

Congress has been vehemently in opposition to  Centre's planned policy of 'strategic disinvestment' by which it hopes to raise capital and support an ecomy performing its worst in several decades.

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Relentless charges on Modi govt

Rahul Gandhi has been pushing out videos on social media almost every or day where he gives a 3-4 minute mologue on issues facing country and critiques Modi government's policies and decisions. He has touched on several issues related to ecomy and "on how Modi Govt has destroyed Indian ecomy".

In a video released on September 3, Gandhi had said that demonetisation was an attack on India's informal sector which mainly included poor labourers, farmers and small shopkeepers. In first video released on August 31, he accused PM Modi's government of 'destroying informal sector' of country and trying to suppress it. According to him, BJP has been attacking informal ecomy since last six years of its rule through GST, demonetization, and nation-wide lockdown.

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