BJP: PM evasive on infrastructure
The BJP on Tuesday again hit out at Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s press conference on UPA-2’s first anniversary in power. The party alleged PM was “conspicuously silent or evasive” on critical issues relating to the infrastructure sector including power, road and air transport.
Chief spokesperson of the party, Mr Ravishankar Prasad said: “Proper growth of infrastructure sector is critical for development and it is indeed surprising that the PM in his press conference yesterday (Monday) was conspicuously silent or evasive on critical issues relating to this sector.” He said it was disappointing to see Prime Minister not touching on these issues at all. Mr Prasad said: “The power sector, road sector, agriculture sector and Air India are critical areas of infrastructure and growth.”
“It was expected from the Prime Minister to explain the critical gaps in these areas, but he chose to remain either silent or evasive. The second press conference of Manmohan Singh during the last six years of the UPA government was indeed an utter disappointment,” he said.
The party said the country was expecting from the PM to outline his strategies for accelerating growth in these sectors and how he proposes to remove the bottlenecks and bring about clarity on issues so that the country is made aware of the road map. “The entire power sector is in a real mess. In fact, the PMO itself is aware of the highly unsatisfactory performance of the power ministry,” Mr Prasad claimed. “The Air transport constitutes a very important area of infrastructure. It is now evidently clear that under the UPA we have seen the demise of the Air India,” he added.
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