New Delhi: In a hard-hitting attack on opposition parties, specially the Congress and the Left, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on said on Thursday said that a new class of “compulsive contrarians” has emerged after Narendra Modi government came to power and they indulge in “falsehood, subversion and institutional destruction” even if it is against the interest of the country.
In a Facebook post, the senior BJP leader, who is in the US for medical treatment, said that the right to campaign for stifling funds to the economy in the name of autonomy, justifying corruption in the name of institutional independence, attacking judges when the verdict is not favourable, manufacturing facts as in the case of Judge Loya’s death and the Rafale deal were indicative of the mindset of the compulsive contrarians.
“Free speech and the right to dissent are critical components of a democracy but falsehood, subversion and institutional destruction are not,” he said, reports IANS. Jaitley talked about the press conference by four Supreme Court judges last year and said “it has done more damage to India’s judicial institutions than many would have envisaged.”
He accused compulsive contrarians of adopting double standards. “They could concoct arguments even if they went against the general interest of the country. They could masquerade corruption as crusade,” he said. On Justice Loya case, he said that every fact alleged in public space by the compulsive contrarians was “manufactured” and the judge died a natural death due to a cardiac arrest.