Intellectual dishonesty, political deceit: PM slams Oppn over farm laws criticism

Accusing the opposition of intellectual dishonesty and political deceit over its criticism of his governments three farm laws Prime Minister Narendra Modi says tough and big decisions need to be taken to bring benefits to citizens who should have received them decades agoStoutly defending the agri laws Modi said it is one thing if a political party makes a promise and is unable to deliver on it but what is a particularly undesirable and detestable trait is some of these parties made promises on the lines of the reforms enacted by his government and have now done a Uturn and spread the most malicious kind of misinformation on the promises they themselves had madeIn an interview to Open magazine he said The things that people of India are entitled to those benefits that they should have received decades ago have still not reached them India shouldnt be put in a situation where it has to wait any longer for the things that this country and its citizens are entitled to we should give it to them And for this big decisions should be taken and if need be tough decisions should also be takenHe was replying to a question about the labour and farm laws enacted by the government and its refusal to rollback the three contentious agriculture laws as demanded by the protesting farmer unionsThe ruling BJP has said that several opposition parties including the Congress had promised similar farm reforms that the Modi government has enacted but are now backing protests against the new laws for selfish political reasonsAlso Read Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi meets PM Narendra Modi discusses farmers issuesA section of farmers especially in Punjab and part of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh have been protesting against the laws whose implementation have been put on holdThe prime minister noted that his government has been saying right from the beginning that it is ready to sit together with the protesting farm bodies and discuss on those issues on which there is a disagreementMany meetings have also been held in this regard but no one till now has come up with a specific point of disagreement that we want this to be changed he saidModi said politics in India had seen only one model which governments were run to build the next government too while his fundamental thinking is different as he believes in running the government to build the nationThe tradition has been to run the government to make your party win but my purpose is to run the government in a way to make our country win he saidReferring to his governments measures like cooking gas cylinder distribution and building toilets for the poor or push to digital payments he said many sections of Indias political class view people through the lens of Raj Shakti governments power while he sees them as Jan Shakti peoples powerThe prime minister also asserted that India has done better than many developed countriesIn an apparent attack on those who have criticised his governments handling of the Covid19 pandemic he said However we have in our midst vested interests whose only aim is to tarnish Indias name Covid19 was a global scourge with all countries equally affected In this scenario India has done better than its peers and many developed countries notwithstanding such negative campaignsThe biggest lesson from the Covid19 fight has been that India has an unparalleled ability to unite find a common purpose come together and a tremendous capacity to deliver when a need arises he saidFrom being a net importer of personal protective equipment PPE kits India has now become one of the biggest manufacturers across the globe he saidImagine if our country had not come up with a vaccine What would be the situation We know that a large population of the world doesnt have access to Covid vaccines Today our success in vaccination is thanks to India being Atmanirbhar selfreliant he saidOn the farm laws he said his government is committed to empowering the small farmers in every waySlamming rivals he said If you look at those who are opposing the profarmer reforms today you will see the real meaning of intellectual dishonesty and rajneetik dhokhadhadi political deceit These were the same people who wrote letters to chief ministers asking them to do the exact same thing that our government has done These were the same people who wrote in their manifesto that they would enact the same reforms that we have broughtYet just because some other political party blessed by the will of the people is enacting the same reforms they have made a complete Uturn and in a brazen display of intellectual dishonesty completely disregard what will benefit the farmers and only seek what they think will benefit them politicallyModi also said that he attaches a big importance to criticism as it is his conviction that this helps in his own healthy developmentI with an honest mind respect critics a lot But unfortunately the number of critics is very few Mostly people only level allegations the people who play games about perception are more in number And the reason for this is that for criticism one has to do a lot of hardwork research and in todays fastpaced world maybe people dont have time So sometimes I miss critics he saidThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever