BJP chargesheets UPA

Charging the UPA government with “failure on all fronts,” BJP held the ruling coalition and Congress responsible for running the economy into the ground, eroding the authority of the Prime Minister’s Office and presiding over mega scams.
BJP released a “chargesheet” against the Manmohan Singh government ahead of its manifesto release slated for Monday and accused the Congress leadership of Sonia and Rahul Gandhi of exercising power without responsibility.
BJP’s chief media coordinator Ravi Shankar Prasad said Sonia and Rahul were as guilty as the PM for UPA’s failures, whether these relate to a failure to control inflation or inability to frame a consistent policy on combating terrorism.
The main opposition said UPA had ushered in ‘A Dark Decade in Governance’ and picked holes in economic policies that it said had hurt the common man and driven investment away.
Saying that the PM was a CEO in a company controlled by the Gandhi family, BJP alleged that there were 10 scams of Rs 10,000 crore and more, including the 2G spectrum, coal mines allocation, CWG, Air India, rotten food, ISRO-Devas and defence land scam. Besides, it also listed many other alleged scams like Adarsh, cash-for-vote, Tatra truck, Vadra land deal, KG basin oil scam and Agusta Westland helicopter scam.
Attacking the government on challenges to national security, Prasad said even though the PM described Left-wing extremism as the single biggest security threat, the response had been far from adequate. “The soft faces of Maoist-Leftist extremist violence have a pride of place in Sonia Gandhi’s National Advisory Council,” Prasad said.
On foreign policy matters, BJP said the government had failed to adopt an effective policy or enhance capacities of the armed forces to meet the threat arising from China’s belligerent posture along the Indo-Tibet border. The UPA government failed to properly assess military implications of Chinese intrusions and Pakistan’s continued belligerence including violation of the cease fire line with impunity and actions like beheading of Indian soldiers.
UPA should have expedited infrastructure development work on the Indian side of the India-Tibet border. Of the 503 stretches of border roads planned to be completed by the year 2022, only 17 have been completed so far and work is currently underway on just 50 stretches.