Excelsior Correspondent
REASI, Sept 3: Former MLA and JKPCC general secretary Thakur Balwan Singh today said that BJP Government has put all the national assets on grand clearance sale for vested interests.
Addressing a press conference at Reasi today, PCC leader said that BJP’s big lie has been exposed. For the last seven years, Narendra Modi and his ministers have denounced the Congress Government for doing nothing and building nothing for 70 years. It was as if India had attained Independence only in May 2014. On August 23, 2021, the Finance Minister released a list of assets that were proposed to be ‘monetised’. However, she failed to disclose when those assets were built. Infact, it took over 70 years for respective Govts to raise these assets.
Balwan Singh said there is a genuine concern that the NMP which lead to monopolies or at best, duopolies, in key sectors such as ports, airports, solar power, telecom, natural gas pipeline, petroleum pipeline and ware housing. He raised serious questions on the process and manner in which Modi Govt operates reflecting it as a conspiratorial manner, as there were no discussions in the Parliament, there was no draft paper on NMP, there were no consultations with the stake holders, especially the employees and trade unions and the policy was hacked in secrecy and announced suddenly.
Referring the long list of assets proposed to be monetized by the Central Govt, the senior Congress leader said that by a stroke of pen, Modi and his Finance Minister have threatened to reduce India’s Public Sector assets to near zero. They claimed that the Govt will collect a rent of 1.50, 000 crore as rent per year and hold on to a piece of paper that it is the owner of the assets. They also boost that the assets will return to the Govt at the end of the transfer period.
Pointing out glaring absence of criteria in the collection of PSUs brought under the NMP, he said that the annual revenue currently being yielded by the chosen assets , has not been disclosed, there is no clarity on jobs and reservations.
District Congress Committee, Reasi president , Rajesh Sadhotra and District Chairman Seva Dal Madan Lal were also present.
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