Congress claims, it started coal blocks re-auctioning process

While the NDA govt is highlighting the one year achievements, opposition Congress party has also come out with the score card contesting the claims

Congress party had refuted the claim that listing auction of coal mines as one of the top achievements of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government led by Narendra Modi.

While the NDA government is highlighting the one year achievements, opposition Congress party has also come out with the score card contesting the claims. The Union Ministers had been listing auction of coal mines as one of the top three achievements and the process would bring several lakhs of crores of rupees to the kitty of coal-bearing states.

"The process of coal blocks auction was initiated by the previous United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government led by Manmohan Singh and the claim of NDA leaders had no logic," All India Congress Committee General Secretary B K Hariprasad said here Wednesday. The party had come out with the score card of NDA government.

Hariprasad said following the Supreme Court verdict, all the coal blocks allocation was cancelled. Under the new process, the blocks had to be re-auctioned and there was nothing like achievement of Modi government in doing so, he said, adding that the coal-bearing states were not going to have a big gain as claimed by the Union Government.

"Cheating people with false promises and information is the biggest scandal," the AICC General Secretary said while responding about the claim that there had not been a major scam during the first year of Modi government. He added that commenting about the country abroad showed Modi's narrow mind-set and it was a sin that would not wash away even after taking bath in Holy Ganga.

Hariprasad said in the name of development, the Prime Minister had been moving around with limited industrialists who had been the biggest beneficiaries.