As Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge took the lead in tearing into the federal government as a part of the dialogue on Motion of Thanks on the President’s Address, different Opposition leaders, too, raised points like inequality, alleged snooping by the federal government utilizing the Pegasus adware, black cash, transgressing on rights of states, administration of the pandemic and taking credit score for the vaccination.
Trinamool Congress MP Sukhendu Sekhar Ray charged the federal government of finishing up a “surgical attack” on federalism, and mentioned the Center had issued a “fatwa” to amend the All-India Services Cadre guidelines, permitting it extra powers of their appointments. He referred to as it “arbitrary” and a “veiled attempt” to centralize government powers of the states.
He additionally attacked the Home Ministry for extending “the jurisdiction of the border security force from 15 km to 50 km in the states bordering Bangladesh and Pakistan without having any discussion with the states concerned. This unilateral decision on the part of the central government is an attempt of coercion upon the elected state governments having international borders.”
He mentioned that inequality within the nation had risen up to now few years. On the problem of black cash, Ray requested the Center to give you a black paper, detailing what it has finished to sort out the issue as revelations made by journalists via Panama Papers, Paradise Papers and, of late, Pandora Papers had named over a 1,000 Indians.
He additionally mentioned that the federal government believes solely it’s telling the reality, whereas globally everybody else is mendacity in the case of the Pegasus snooping row.
Tiruchi Siva of the DMK additionally criticized the federal government for the proposed modification to the all-India service guidelines, calling it a “transgressing into the rights of the states”.
After the BJP had come to energy, Siva mentioned, “democracy is in peril, secularism is at stake, federalism is (being) targeted, states’ rights encroached and transgressed”. He added that the minorities have been “unsafe” and accused the federal government of “tapping the poor and patting the rich”.
CPM’s Bikash Ranjan Bhattacharyya mentioned that the President had not spoken in regards to the primary realities of the nation, which, he mentioned have been, “completely different from the rosy picture which has been sought to be projected by the deliberations of the honorable president.”
He additionally said that the federal government is constructing Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s statue on the cover at India Gate however doesn’t imagine in his ideology of respecting and giving equal share to the minorities.
Ramgopal Yadav of the Samajwadi Party mentioned he’ll assist the movement, as per custom, though he mentioned, “he does not agree with it”. He mentioned that “one side has been presented; the other side has been blacked out.” The real situation, Yadav said, “should be a reflection about where we are working well, and where we have lacked, that can be improved. If you hide the faults, they will only accentuate.”
Bringing up Uttar Pradesh politics into his speech, because the state goes to polls in just some days, he accused the nation’s Home Minister and UP’s Chief Minister of utilizing abusive language in opposition to SP chief Akhilesh Yadav. He mentioned that it was as a result of Akhilesh Yadav’s rising reputation, that the federal government imposed restrictions on rallies via the “Commission” as BJP folks have been getting “beaten up”.
He additionally demanded that the caste census be made public, and mentioned that although the federal government had appointed leaders from Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Backward Castes, “they are not allowed to open their mouths. How is this representation helping them? The President’s address is not reflecting reality.”
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
