Govt dividing people, diverting attention from key issues

CPI leader Binoy Viswam on Thursday accused the government of dividing the people on religious lines and trying to divert attention from its failures through CAA, NPR and NRC.

"They want to divide the people of India. For that, they want to do away with the Constitution....the focal point is to attack the Constitution from within," Viswam said while participating in a debate on the Motion of Thanks on President's Address.

He told the House that the government had failed on its promises and wanted to divert the attention through the Citizen Amendment Act (CAA), National Population Register (NPR) and National Register of Citizens (NRC).

He said, "I can only disagree and object to the Motion of Thanks to President's Address. Sometime we may feel pity for the President...he was forced by the government to say all those matters which were not facts."
About the government's announcement on India becoming a USD 5 trillion economy, he said, "It is the hallmark of their series of promises. I can tell you emphatically that 5 trillion dollar (economy) will remain a dream. This government can never fulfil that promise."