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Modi government controlled by RSS: Anand Sharma
Shimla, June 14
The Narendra Modi government
was being remote-controlled by the RSS, Congress leader and former union
minister Anand Sharma said here on Sunday.
"The RSS is trying to
affect the thought process of the youth," Sharma told reporters here,
referring to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief's statement on
changing the school syllabi.
Sharma said the Modi government must
remember that India is a secular nation where all religions have lived
with harmony since centuries and would continue to do so.
He said the slogan of "minimum government, maximum governance" has now changed to "one man government".
"Nobody
in the current government has the right to even appoint their
departmental heads," he said, pointing out that many important
government institutions were still running without their chiefs.
Referring
to the one-year performance of the government, Sharma, who belongs to
the Himachal Pradesh capital, said "acche din" (good days) was just a
slogan used by Modi to befool people.
"Issues like effective
governance and increasing employment opportunities are missing in the
priority of the government. The economic growth which the NDA is
boasting of is not visible in their budget."
The Congress leader
said the budget presented by the government was less than that of the
UPA government, pointing that the education budget was cut down to 3.2
percent compared to six percent in the Congress-led United Progressive
Alliance regime.
Sharma refuted the allegation made by the
BJP-led National Democratic Alliance of inheriting a weak economy from
the previous regime.
He said that during the UPA government, India became the first country to achieve four times GDP growth in a decade.