Hyderabad: CPM politburo member Brinda Karat on Friday accused the NDA government of adopting an anti-farmer and pro-corporate stance.
Ms Karat said that the party plans to increase women membership from the present 16 per cent to 25 per cent, adding that membership in the CPM is not the one like “missed call”, an indirect dig at BJP.
She was speaking at a ‘Meet the Press’ programme organised by the Telangana Working Journalists Federation.
“Modi government waived the Rs 72,000 crore bank loans of Adani group companies while waiver of loans for the entire farmer community in the country was Rs 75,000 crore. In the last three years, waiver of bank loans to the corporate sector touched Rs 6.8 lakh-crore. 70 per cent of loans waived were of corporates,” she alleged.
Stating that the rich had become richer in the country in the past three years, Ms Karat said that properties of the rich have gone up from 48 per cent to 58 per cent, evidence of the government’s pro-rich stand.
Ms Karat alleged that gau rakshak dals in the BJP-ruled states were targeting Muslims and Dalits. CPM was also being targeted, she alleged.
“There has been nothing to boast about in Modi’s three-year rule. It’s a rule of deceit. Modi promised 2 crore jobs but failed. All he managed was 2.3 lakh jobs. Due to problems in IT sector, we may lose 6 to 10 lakh jobs in next 4/5 years,” she said.
Extending support to chilli farmers, Ms Karat asked why Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao was silent on this and other issues.
On triple talaq, she said she strongly opposed it. “Muslim law is being misused in triple talaq,” Ms Karat said.
She alleged that the Centre has failed to handle the Kashmir issue and asserted that it needed a political solution.
