Modi speech ‘disappointing, insensitive to child deaths’
NEW DELHI: The Congress on Tuesday described Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Independence Day speech as “most disappointing” and slammed him for being “insensitive” towards the deaths of over 60 children in a Gorakhpur hospital last week.
The party also said that Modi’s promise of curbing black money “remains a sham”. “On Gorakhpur, he has not shown his sensitivity and has not actually registered the gravity of the situation that a large number of children, infants, have died because of callous neglect.
“He has just in a very trivial manner equated the Gorakhpur tragedy to the other natural calamities. He should have been careful,” Congress leader Anand Sharma told reporters here.
“His (Prime Minister Narendra Modi) fight against black money was a sham and remains a sham,” he added. Sharma said the Modi government has “promoted black money hoarding” and promoted “crony capitalism”.
Lashing out at the government, Sharma asked, “Why has this government not given an account of how much of black money is there in the money that has come back to the RBI vaults?”
Commenting on the Prime Minister’s Independence Day address, he said: “After three years, it was time for him to give an account of the failures of his government to deliver on the promises, especially the betrayal of the youth, the farmers and the weaker sections.”
Sharma said: “Now he is not talking about employment. India is losing jobs, not in lakhs but in millions, and particularly in the informal sector there have been heavy job losses, which has created a very difficult situation for the poor and vulnerable sections.