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03.08.2010
etc. etc. but deep inside you know that you are just … (Not recorded) of some
unseen power who pull the strings from behind your back; whether from
Washington D.C. or from some other country.
MR. CHAIRMAN : Anuragi ji, please sit down.
SHRI TATHAGATA SATPATHY : Unfortunately, in the last five years of UPA-I
and now one-and-a-half years of UPA-II, you have not invested any sizeable
amount in the field of agriculture. The population of this country has been
growing by leaps and bound but today I do not know what the political
compulsions are, what are the necessities. You are scared to talk about ‘family
planning’. You have changed the name to ‘family welfare’. You have taken out
every sign, every little activity that was going under the name of ‘family planning’.
All your programmes have been trashed. You want to collect revenue so that you
can spend that for poverty amelioration programmes. But this very moment, while
we sit in this air conditioned hall and talk merrily, laugh and joke that the poor is
suffering, what are we doing about them now? How do you address their problem
today, this minute, you have no answers.
All your yojanas when they go to the block, taluka or panchayat level they
are nothing. They are just mere paper. Indira Avas Yojana, NREGA, all these are
programmes to perpetuate poverty. You want to perpetuate poverty because you
have a feudal mindset. The Raja is happy when the praja is in darkness and in
misery. When the praja is eloquent, can speak out, can stand up for its rights and
responsibilities, there exists no Raja. So, you believe in a system that perpetuates
this mindset.
SHRI N.S.V. CHITTHAN (DINDIGUL): There are no Rajas today.
SHRI TATHAGATA SATPATHY : You are the Rajas. You represent the Rajas.
You follow the Raja system which is a shame for a democracy like India.
MR. CHAIRMAN: Please conclude.
SHRI TATHAGATA SATPATHY : You know, Sir, that I am an obedient
Member.
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