Manmohan Singh, says Corruption has peaked under Modi

Citing the controversial Rafale fighter jets deal former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday alleged that corruption has peaked under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said the country was passing through extremely challenging times with farmers suffering distress youth facing acute joblessness and the common man suffering from rising prices and tax terrorismAddressing a press conference here in pollbound Madhya Pradesh he attacked Modi over demonetisation describing it as a monumental failure of epic proportions and said the junking of high currency notes in 2016 was only a dubious scheme to convert black money to whiteSingh said people should fight against the onslaught on institutions by the Modi government or else history will not forgive usIn the last few months we have witnessed how the credibility of our institutions has been systematically denigrated A careful wellthought out and a calibrated effort is being made by the powers that be to weaken them Democracy and rule of law are under attack We have to fight this onslaught on our institutions otherwise history shall never forgive usHe said the Modi government came to power on the promise to usher in transparency and fight against corruption and only a few months are left for its term to endBut we have only witnessed corruption peaking under PM Modi The acts of omission and commission in Rafale deal need thorough investigation by a Joint Parliamentary Committee JPC he saidSeeking a change in the state in the November 28 Assembly polls Singh also made several attacks on the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government saying that Madhya Pradesh witnesses a farmer suicide every five hours and the state has seen the maximum number of suicides due to unemploymentAttacking the Modi government he said national security is imperilled women were unsafe and marginalised and weaker sections were facing persecutionOur nation is going through extremely challenging times since the last four and a half years Farmers distress is all pervading and the youth are suffering from acute joblessness The common man is suffering from rising prices notably prices of petrol diesel and cooking gas he saidThe Congress leader said unwitting and illconceived decisions of demonetisation and a flawed GST coupled with tax terrorism have dealt a body blow to both organised and unorganised sectorsHe said small medium and micro enterprises were reeling under the adverse and painful effects of the double whammy of demonetisation and the Goods and Services TaxHe accused the Modi government of building a false narrative a day to justify the demonetisation disasterThe plain truth and stark reality is that demonetisation is a monumental failure of epic proportions None of the stated objectives of demonetisation has been achieved Neither was the three lakh crore rupees of black money confiscated as claimed before the Supreme Court on November 10 2016 nor was fake currency checked Stated objectives of ending terrorism and Naxalism have totally floundered he saidSingh said demonetisation was a deliberate and designed attack on the savings of small and medium businesses farmers and housewives even as over 120 poor people lost their lives in the bank queues and a parallel market to convert old notes into new notes flourished under the watch of the Modi GovernmentHe said Modi had failed to fulfil his promises on black money depositing Rs 15 lakh in the account of every Indian and creating two crore jobs per annumSingh said Labour Bureau data shows that only a few thousand jobs were created or added every quarter and the promise of achhe din had proved hollowWhy has the Labour Bureau Survey for OctoberDecember 2017 not been released he askedHe said that 281000 youth with MBALLBBEPhD degrees applied for 738 peon posts in February this year in Madhya Pradesh and the state could create only about 17600 jobs every yearMaximum number of people in India who ended their life due to unemployment belong to BJPruled Madhya Pradesh Between 2005 and 2015 there has been a 2000 per cent increase in suicide cases in Madhya Pradesh due to unemploymentHe also attacked the Chouhan government over the Vyapam scam etender scam onion purchase scam dal purchase scam agriculture pump subsidy scam and said proper investigation and accountability are the first casualties in Madhya PradeshSingh said farmers were in great pain all over India including Madhya Pradesh which has a very high incidence of farmer suicidesBetween 2004 and 2016 Madhya Pradesh saw nearly 17000 farmer suicides he said adding that AK47 was used against farmers in RaisenSingh said the promise of minimum support price was another jumlaSingh said the number of farmers covered by crop insurance has gone up only by 042 percent but premiums paid to insurance companies have increased by 350 percentOf the nearly 69 lakh farmers enrolled with PMFBY Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana in the state only 16 lakh benefittedCatch up on all the latest Crime National 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