Picking holes in the UPA-II’s report card on completion of four years, the main Opposition BJP on Thursday said the Congress-led UPA made false claims of success and the report card does not stand scrutiny on figures, facts and statements made in the document.
It also countered Congress and government’s allegations that the NDA has been an irresponsible and disruptive Opposition.
Rubbishing UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi’s charge that the Opposition had frequently disrupted Parliament which prevented passage of Food Security Bill and Land Acquisition Bill, BJP’s Sudhanshu Trivedi said, “Did this government not get the Indo-US Civilian Nuclear Deal and the FDI in multi-brand retail issues passed in Parliament despite our opposition to them. So why can they not get the Food Security and the Land Acquisition bills passed? The first two were matters of interest to them but these two bills are not.”
He said BJP wants these important bills to be passed but with some amendments.
The main Opposition alleged that though Congress has been in power for 56 years since Independence yet it has failed to provide food security to the people.
“Even today two-thirds of the population of this country needs food security. Congress should apologise to the nation for this,” Mr Trivedi said.