Anand Sharma: PM Modi is running scared of real issues, Congress will highlight his non-performance

Senior Congress leader Anand Sharma who is also heading the 13-member publicity committee of the grand old party, came down heavily on PM Modi on Saturday and said PM is running scared of the real issues.

Briefing media about the poll strategy of Congress, Sharma said unlike BJP, his party will stick to the real issues during the campaign.

Congress will seek answer from the PM and will hold him responsible, said Sharma adding that his party will highlight “non-performance and non-deliverance” of the Modi government in the upcoming election.

“PM is running scared of the real issues. Voters do not want to know how strong you are Mr Modi! Strength of a government is defined by its thinking, policies and implementation,” said Sharma.

PM will have to answer for his betrayal, he added.

Dubbing Modi as “the most controversial PM of the post-independence India,” Anand Sharma criticised Modi for spending thousands of crores on his promotion.

PM Modi who likes to coin phrases and his party BJP have even surpassed multinational brands such as Netflix, Amazon in advertisement by spending more than ₹4000 crores in advertisement over the last 4 years, the Congress leader alleged.

Sharma asked who will answer for the loss of jobs, farmers death and steep rise in unemployment other than the PM? Indian economy has suffered due to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “reckless” decisions, he added.

Blaming Modi government for the mismanagement of the economy Sharma said during the Modi regime, rate of the investment has fallen by 7 per cent. Similarly, capital formation and export havernment gone down drastically.

Sharma said the four engines of the Indian economy -- investment, manufacturing, exports and capital formation -- were down.

“How can you keep on claiming that we are the fastest growing (economy) by not creating jobs but by destroying them. There is a huge contradiction. This economy is not creating jobs. Exports have stagnated for five years, manufacturing has gone down, gross fixed capital formation has remained hovering over zero. National investment rate has fallen. These are the facts. The government has gone into heavy borrowing,” he said.

“The time has come to punish the PM and his government for destroying the credibility of Indian data, embellish the data, fudging numbers and inflating figures. The fiscal deficit has reached an alarming point. These are the questions to the prime minister,” he asserted.