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this propaganda is too good to be true. The that forced the Congress party to legislate to fair investigation, the better it will be. De-
MNREGA, NRHM, rural electrification,
loans to vote banks and many such fraudulent
schemes add up to over Rs 8.2 lakh
crore taken from the middle class tax payers
in the last nine years. Their own leader,
late Rajiv Gandhi had admitted 25 years
ago that 85% of all money is pilfered before
it reaches the beneficiary. Now it can
be imagined how much loot the Congress
party and its allies caused to India in the
last nine years, let alone in 45 years prior to
that. It is the responsibility of media not to
succumb to financial intimidation by supporting
the Bharat Nirman campaign.
As part of the crores of public money
being spent for the Bharat Nirman campaign,
the Congress party has come up
it, the latter is now claiming its ownership.
The Metro Rail project was one of NDA’s
achievements when Atal Bihari Vajpayee
had inaugurated its construction on October
1, 1998, but the Congress party shamelessly
claims undue credit for it. The people
of India aren’t naïve to understand such a
brazen attitude and arrogance seen in the
falsehood called ‘Bharat Nirman’.
The theme of the 2014 Bharat Nirman
wall calender is: ‘Bharat Nirman - Sabka
Hit, Sabka Haq’, which actually sounds more
like ‘Congress ka hit, mera haq’. It looks like
a failed attempt to sweep many of Congress
party’s scams and loot under the carpet. The
sooner they admit and subject themselves
spite people’s verdict in the recent elections,
the Congress is still living in a denial mode.
This pre-election multi-media ad blitz
and the print media tamasha to showcase
its "achievements" of the past nine years
in government is as much a drama as the
UPA itself. What happened to the great
promise of Manmohan Singh, that his
government will control price rise in 100
days of his government formation? The
reality of a worst inflationary economy
stares at India after nearly 3,000 days of
Congress governance. No power, no jobs,
no security, no honest governance and
no accountability and nothing inspiring
enough to write home about. The policies
and schemes advertised in this Bharat Nirman
campaign are but instruments of loot
with a 2014 wall calendar of lies and
complete falsehood. Every month of 2014 The theme of the 2014 Bharat
and plunder of tax-payers’ money by the
on this calendar will signify one big lie. Nirman wall calender is: ‘Bharat Congress party and its friends.
If MNREGA is riddled with corruption
and Aadhar is the plan to legalize Bangladeshi
Nirman - Sabka Hit, Sabka Haq’,
migrants, the Right To Education
which actually sounds more like
(The author has been a socio-political
has proved a big disaster. When credit for
activist for over 20 years. She is a practicing
lawyer and national spokesperson
Right To Information should be given to ‘Congress ka hit, mera haq’
the BJP, Anna Hazare and many NGOs
of the Bharatiya Janata Party.)
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