Modi government completes 6 months, Congress releases booklet terming BJP a ‘U-turn sarkar’

New Delhi: Dubbing the Narendra Modi dispensation as a "U-turn sarkar", Congress on Monday released a booklet projecting it as a "farce" in the name of government while accusing it of "umpteen somersaults" on a range of promises from black money to incursions.

In a 30-page booklet titled "chhe mahine paar, U-turn sarkar" (Six months after, a U-turn sarkar), it said the Prime Minister and his government have gone back on virtually each and every poll pitch "with a U-turn every week".

Releasing the booklet, AICC general secretary Ajay Maken accused the government of resorting to "white lies" on black money, flip-flop on issues with Pakistan, "double standards" on insurance bill and "gross opportunism" in aligning with NCP.

He said while Modi promised clean politics, he delivered a "tainted cabinet" and made a 180-degree turn on the issue of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir and many "slip-slops" on holding elections in Delhi.

Maken alleged that the government walked into corridors of power with its "counterfeit vocabulary" riding on a wave of "corporate-funded" high voltage campaign based entirely on "false promises and baseless allegations."

"However, six months down the lane, Modi government stands out for three simple characteristics- U-turn on promises, mere renaming and plagirising UPA's programmes and schemes and decisions that involves selling out public/national interests for the benefit of friendly corporate houses," he said.

"The Modi government is nothing but U-turn sakrar, a government of imitation and industrialists. Congress cannot be a silent complicit to the farce being enacted in the name of government", Maken said claiming that the booklet seeks to apprise people of the real face of Modi and BJP.

The AICC Communication department chief said that in the last one week, the government made U-turns on three more issues including revealing the documents relating to Subhash Chandra Bose, civil nuclear liability Act and on the issue of land boundary agreement with Bangaladesh.

"People, nation and Congress want to know whether the temptations of power had made you so blind that you opposed everything by the Congress-led government just to come to power?", he said.

Claiming that the BJP-led government has taken at least 25 U-turns including 22 listed in the booklet during its six months in power, Maken said that BJP's "real intention" of attacking every decision of the UPA was just to "capture power", which now stands exposed.

"We want to make it clear that we are not in anyway supporting the promises or stand taken by the BJP before the Lok Sabha polls. We just want to highlight how it made a somersault on the issues after coming to power after making entirely different noises on them during Lok Sabha election campaign," he said accusing if of "misleading" people.

This is the second booklet on the NDA government's functioning brought out by Congress.

It had released the first booklet on the completion of the 100 days of Modi government.

Besides, the booklet, the party has this time simultaneously taken to social media to counter Modis' media blitzkrieg and launched an on-line campaign under "U-turn Sarkar" name with different hashtags on Twitter.

At the AICC briefing, Maken said that while BJP had disrupted Parliament in 2010 on the nuclear liability law, a national daily has reported a different thinking in the Modi government now on the issue.

Attacking Finance Minister Arun Jaitley over the Bangladesh land boundary agreement issue, the Congress general secretary recalled that the former, then as Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha, had written to then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh against it.

"This U-turn is surprising. Modiji said in Guwahati that the land swapping deal with Bangladesh would be operationalised. I want to ask Jaitley whether his legal sense and legal knowledge on issues change when he is in Opposition and in Government. Or whether the Prime Minister has overruled him?" Maken asked.

On BJP-NCP relations, he said,"BJP and Modi, pitching their campaign in Maharashtra around corruption, termed the Nationalist Congress Party as Naturally Corrupt Party. The same party is now BJP's natural ally."

Other issues on which Congress accused the government of U-turns are its stand on Aadhar and financial inclusion, Direct Benefit Transfer, handling of China issue and Henderson Brooks report and about BJP's stand on CAG reports.