Nothing will be left of Rahul speeches if fake issues taken out: Jaitley
TNN | Mar 17, 2019, 01:45 IST
NEW DELHI: Finance minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday tore into the opposition for spreading what he called falsehoods on several issues including the Rafale deal, fugitive businessmen Nirav Modi and Vijay Mallya as well as the health of the economy, saying a ‘campaign of fake news’ never works.
“Fake issues raised in Rafale, Balakot, Judge Loya’s death, bank loan waiver, JNU issues, EVM, GST, demonetisation or Nirav Modi and Mallya, or be it special status for Andhra Pradesh, or the issues of economy, every time fakery & manufactured issues of opposition fell apart,” Jaitley wrote in a blog.
“It is unfortunate that opposition parties see opportunity in fake issues forgetting ‘Satyamev Jayate’. Truth holds and falsehood falls apart. The overconfidence of opposition leaders undermining electorates’ wisdom will not go unpunished in the 2019 elections,” he said.
Jaitley said if fake issues are taken out of Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s speech, nothing will perhaps be left.
“The opposition is in pathetic state. It has to manufacture fake issues against the government since the real ones don’t exist. The opposition underestimates the wisdom of the electorate. I am confident that the electorate will respond to India’s opposition parties and show them their place,” the FM said.
He said it was a recognition of the performance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government that the opposition, after five years, has no real issue against it.
“The government is contesting on a pro-incumbency performance platform. It is a government with a leader with whom the comfort level of the voter is high. The Opposition is in a state of panic. It’s single point programme is a negative one - ‘remove one man’,” he said.
Jaitley said in the absence of any real issue against the government, Rahul Gandhi has led not only his party but the entire opposition to rely on fake and manufactured issues. They raise fake issues, create an echo effect and then believe their falsehood to be true, he added.
Referring to the allegations against the government over the Rafale deal, the FM said both the Supreme Court and CAG have cleared the deal and rejected all the contentions of the opposition.
“The government has saved thousands of crores of the exchequer in the Rafale deal compared to the prices quoted in 2007. All procedures have been followed and not one rupee favour has been shown by the government to any domestic industrialist. Rafale is not to be manufactured in India at all,” he said.
On the issue of the opposition’s charge that bank loans have been waived for industrialists, Jaitley said not one rupee of loan has been waived. “Indiscriminate loans were given during 2008-2014 by public sector banks. They became NPAs. The present government enacted ‘The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code’, removed the defaulting managements and have, in the last two years, recovered almost Rs three lakh crore worth of NPAs,” the FM said.
“Fake issues raised in Rafale, Balakot, Judge Loya’s death, bank loan waiver, JNU issues, EVM, GST, demonetisation or Nirav Modi and Mallya, or be it special status for Andhra Pradesh, or the issues of economy, every time fakery & manufactured issues of opposition fell apart,” Jaitley wrote in a blog.
“It is unfortunate that opposition parties see opportunity in fake issues forgetting ‘Satyamev Jayate’. Truth holds and falsehood falls apart. The overconfidence of opposition leaders undermining electorates’ wisdom will not go unpunished in the 2019 elections,” he said.
Jaitley said if fake issues are taken out of Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s speech, nothing will perhaps be left.
“The opposition is in pathetic state. It has to manufacture fake issues against the government since the real ones don’t exist. The opposition underestimates the wisdom of the electorate. I am confident that the electorate will respond to India’s opposition parties and show them their place,” the FM said.
He said it was a recognition of the performance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government that the opposition, after five years, has no real issue against it.
“The government is contesting on a pro-incumbency performance platform. It is a government with a leader with whom the comfort level of the voter is high. The Opposition is in a state of panic. It’s single point programme is a negative one - ‘remove one man’,” he said.
Jaitley said in the absence of any real issue against the government, Rahul Gandhi has led not only his party but the entire opposition to rely on fake and manufactured issues. They raise fake issues, create an echo effect and then believe their falsehood to be true, he added.
Referring to the allegations against the government over the Rafale deal, the FM said both the Supreme Court and CAG have cleared the deal and rejected all the contentions of the opposition.
“The government has saved thousands of crores of the exchequer in the Rafale deal compared to the prices quoted in 2007. All procedures have been followed and not one rupee favour has been shown by the government to any domestic industrialist. Rafale is not to be manufactured in India at all,” he said.
On the issue of the opposition’s charge that bank loans have been waived for industrialists, Jaitley said not one rupee of loan has been waived. “Indiscriminate loans were given during 2008-2014 by public sector banks. They became NPAs. The present government enacted ‘The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code’, removed the defaulting managements and have, in the last two years, recovered almost Rs three lakh crore worth of NPAs,” the FM said.
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