EDITORIAL
Rahul speech exposes
mess Cong has made
by MeraBharosa Team |
Dec 23, 2013 | 53 Views
Rahul Gandhi addressed the industry body FICCI on the weekend. Apart from complaining that
the media never has anything good to say about the Congress (which he really should not be
surprised about), he made several points that bordered on the ridiculous.
He claimed that accessing land is difficult especially for start ups. Of course it is. May be if his
government had passed the Real Estate Regulation and Development Bill that has been tabled
with the Parliament since last year, it would have been easier. But then if the bill had been passed
he would have no excuses for the economic mess.
Rahul Gandhi also said, “Corruption is bleeding our people dry. It is an unacceptable burden on
the people of our nation. We must fight corruption with all our strength and determination.”
We find this one a bit hard to swallow this. Firstly, on the day that the Lokpal was being passed,
a former chief minister of Maharashtra was being let off for his involvement in a scam. The Congress
meanwhile is getting forging an alliance with Shri Lalu Prasad Yadav – a convicted criminal – to regain
its strength in Parliament. Great way to rid the country of corruption!
Rahul Gandhi also touched upon the problems in our education system. He said, “We desperately
need better knowledge and innovation systems. We need you to increase investment in education and
R&D. Most importantly, we need to rid ourselves of the idea that academia and industry are separate
silos. We need to drastically upgrade the skill level of our people and simplify our processes.”
We agree. India spends less than 1% of its GDP , Singapore spends 2% and South Korea 3%.
The UPA has said it will hike research expenditure to 2% in the 12th five year plan but that commitment
has not been met at least since 2012. Why are public sector companies not collaborating with central
universities yet? Instead of promising to do this before the elections, shouldn’t the government already
have started implemeting this?
He added, “There has been a massive scaling up of investment in education and training.” This is
definitely not true. Capital expenditure on education is only 0.87% of total public sector expenses
and is has been declining since 2009.
Rahul’s also observed that “Despite global headwinds, Indian industry has sustained growth because
of the energy of our business community. The political stability and rational policy environment provided
by our governments also made this possible.”
He got this one bang on. It is the Indian industrialists that have been responsible for any kind of growth
no thanks to the government. No wonder, several businesses chose to invest outside India as domestic
investment policies are so painful.
What struck us as the most ironic was the fact that everything Rahul Gandhi saw as difficulties in the
future are issues the Congress has definitely made worse in the last decade.
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