Dinesh Kamath's Editorial 'Opposition should constructively attack the Ruling Party' that was published in Newsband

Opposition should constructively attack the Ruling Party

Congress president Rahul Gandhi alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi deliberately “inflicted the wound of demonetisation on the country to help his 15-20 crony capitalist friends” and described it as a “scam.” The note ban was a deliberate attack on India’s medium and small businesses, he added. He also alleged that the Prime Minister was “lying” about the Rafale deal and reiterated his demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee probe to find out “what is the deal struck between Modi and industrialist Anil Ambani.” He said the note ban was meant “to help the richest people, the most corrupt people on this land to change their money from black to white.” “Prime Minister Modi should answer why he inflicted a deep wound like demonetisation when issues like unemployment and low GDP rate remained,” he said.

Rahul Gandhi is wrong about the PM’s intentions. Demonitization is neither a mistake nor a failure. It has provided some financial order in the society. Now we know clearly what is black and white. A common man or people are afraid of keeping in black. They make their transactions as transparent as possible. They know they will be caught. Nobody will take risk. That is why savings in mutual funds are increasing day by day, tax collection is increasing. We know how rich have converted their unaccounted in to white but they also will be caught one day. People thought it was a good measure and supported the Government. If 99.3% money come back in to the system you have satisfaction that you have not taken forcefully from the people.

Demonetisation is an excellent scheme which requires real guts to implement was unfortunately very badly implemented due to the failure of the Finance Ministry and Reserve Bank. It’s a very laudable scheme which could have done wonders by removing black money in Toto and all ills of the economy. Had the scheme been implemented effectively, the image of the NDA government would have reached a very high level.

For Rahul Gandhi, it is better to focus and answer the question as to what "he" had done for the country in the previous five years and on what basis would the innocent and ignorant people of India will vote for Congress? Modi has at least done something for the countrymen by taking some harsh steps which Rahul Gandhi lacks. There is no one in the opposition to match the personality of Modi; at least Rahul Gandhi is nowhere in the list.

The politicians should be accountable for their previous five years schedule and this must be the criteria of their victory or defeat in the upcoming election. It’s better to rise above the caste and dirty politics instead of backstabbing, cheating and blaming each other and on the whole, looting Indian people and their sentiments. Sometimes what Rahul says is not logical to many.

The opposition parties do not constructively criticise Ruling Party. The opposition is openly against Modi and not against Modi's principles. We require healthy criticism and not opposing anything done by Modi.