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Congress leader Rashid Alvi says, TV sets are turned off when PM Modi comes on air


Mangalore Today News Network

New Delhi, Dec 17, 2018 : Nowadays when PM Narendra Modi comes on air, people switch of their television sets," Congress leader and a former MP Rashid Alvi said today as he sought to corner the Modi-led NDA government on not delivering on promises made during the 2014 Lok Sabha election, Yahoonews reported.

 

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Alvi made these comments at Agenda Aaj Tak 2018 where he took part in a debate with Union Minister for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, senior CPI(M) leader Mohammed Salim and Lok Janshakti Party MP Chirag Paswan.

Alvi said that people are afraid of listening to PM Narendra Modi speak as they fear he may invalidate Rs 2,000 or Rs 500 notes. Alvi was referring to PM Modi’s 2016 shock demonetisation announcement that made around 85 per cent of India’s currency worthless.

Alvi’s Congress as well as other Opposition parties have stridently criticised the demonetisation exercise.

Speaking at Agenda Aaj Tak today, Alvi said that the Narendra Modi government had failed to deliver on the promises made by the BJP in the run-up to the 2014 Lok Sabha election. Alvi also said that under the Modi government, an environment of polarisation had taken shape and that minorities were not safe.

According to CPI(M)’s Mohammed Salim, the recent election losses suffered by the Bharatiya Janata Party in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh proved that voters are worried.

The BJP lost in the three states even though there was no ’grand alliance’ against them, Salim said, adding that this was proof that the 2019 election could lead to the defeat of the BJP.

Union minister Naqvi and Lok Sabha MP Chirag Paswan, whose father Ram Vilas is the president of the Lok Janshakti Party, countered the arguments put forth by Salim and Alvi.

Both Naqvi and Paswan expressed confidence that the Modi-led NDA would come back to power in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

Naqvi said that that the Modi government had undertaken various initiatives and programmes meant to improve the situation on the ground.

For example, Naqvi said, no petrol pumps have gone "dry" in the past four-and-a-half years nor have there been any cooking gas "crises" of the kind seen under the previous UPA government. The delivery of essentials has improved and stabilised under the current government, Naqvi said.

Chirag Paswan echoed Naqvi to say that the Modi government has put in place several schemes that will one day turn the country into an ideal nation that people dream of today.


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