Rahul Gandhi said this morning that the government is “attacking the informal sector.”
New Delhi:
The leader of Congress, Rahul Gandhi, this morning accused the government of attacking the informal sector with his three movements: demonetization, closure and GST. “India’s economy is experiencing a slowdown for the first time in 40 years, this will be confirmed today. Those who cannot practice Satyagrah (dedication to the truth) are blaming God, “the former head of Congress tweeted, referring to GDP data to be released today and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s comment on” act of God “last week .
The 50-year-old congressional leader suggested that the former congressional-led UPA government had protected India from the “economic storm” in 2008, adding that the government is “trying to make them slaves.” “The BJP government has attacked the informal sector. They are trying to turn them into slaves. In 2008, the world was hit by a severe economic storm. America, Europe, China, Japan, all of them were hit by turbulence. In America , banks were affected, companies closed. But India was not affected, “Gandhi is heard saying in the video.
“I went to Manmohan Singh (the then prime minister) and asked him: ‘The whole world has been affected by the recession. Why is India not affected? ‘ He said: “Rahul, you have to understand. India has two economic structures: the formal, which has larger companies, and the informal, which includes MSMEs and farmers. As long as the informal sector is not affected, the country can stand firm. “. “The deputy to the Wayanad Congress in Kerala is heard recalling his conversation with the former prime minister.
“Demonetization, GST and closure: these three movements of the BJP government have attacked the informal structure. It is not correct to think that the closure was a last minute movement and that it was not done deliberately. All these three movements were taken to hit the sector informal, ”adds the former head of Congress.
“If the prime minister wants to run the government, he needs media, marketing. The informal sector has a lot of money that the government cannot touch. They want to break up this sector and extort money. The effects of this attack on the informal sector will be seen soon. The results will be that India will not be able to produce jobs … because the informal sector produces 90 per cent of jobs. Once the informal sector is destroyed, India will not be able to produce jobs, “he stresses. .
Mr. Gandhi summarizes the video by saying: “You are the ones who run this country, you are leading us and there is a conspiracy against you. You are being deceived and there is an attempt to turn you into slaves. We have to understand this attack and the whole country has to come together to fight this. “
जो आर्थिक त्रासदी देश झेल रहा है उस दुर्भाग्यपूर्ण सच्चाई की आज पुष्टि हो जाएगी: भारतीय अर्थव्यवस्था 40 वर्षों में पहली बार भारी मंदी में है।
‘असत्याग्रही’ इसका दोष ईश्वर को दे रहे हैं।
सच जानने के लिए मेरा वीडियो देखें। pic.twitter.com/sDNV6Fwqut
– Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) August 31, 2020
The latest attack comes when India’s gross domestic product or GDP is expected to have declined in the period from April to June. Many economists expect the country to suffer its decent quarterly decline since the mid-1990s, with contraction estimates as bad as 25.9 percent.
Last week, the Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, referring to the coronavirus pandemic, had said: “This year we are facing an extraordinary situation. We are facing an act of God in which we can even see a contraction.”
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