Modi govt failed to keep poll promises, pursued communal

Seeking to pooh-pooh Modi government's performance in two years, Left parties today accused it of "not keeping" its poll promises, "failing completely" on the economic front and pursuing "communal agenda aggressively".
Alleging the economy has "deteriorated" under the Narendra Modi, the parties said the "scary situation" is likely to prevail over the next three years too, given the government's "committment" to pursuing neo-liberal economic policies and "communal and fascist agenda" of the RSS.
"If you see, none of the promises they made has been implemented. And there is actually a deterioration in the economy as far as people are concerned and the burden on the people has increased, apart from the social tensions," CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury alleged.

Yechury reiterated his party's charge against the government of launching a three-pronged attack on people: pursuance of "communal polarisation" to "convert" India into a 'Hindu Rashtra', implementation of neo-liberal economic policies and "undermining" country's democratic institutions.
CPI national secretary D Raja echoed his views and added the agrarian crisis "deepened" during the two years, with number of farmer suicides "going up" and unemployment seeing a "rise".
"The government failed despite a steep fall in crude oil price in the international market. Government failed to recover the economy," he said.

The Parliamentarian also sought to pick flaws in the government's foreign policy, saying it "lacked transparency" and noted New Delhi's ties with neighbours including Nepal witnessed "problems" even as the government, he added, was busy "trying to please the US".

"In foreign policy matter, the government was trying to please the US and there was no transparency in the foreign policy affairs and the relations with our neighbours should have improved a lot, but it hasn't happened with Pakistan, Nepal, everywhere we have problems," he said.
On his part, Yechury underscored the need for launching "widespread and powerful" struggle against the government to defend their right to a "decent" livelihood and in defence of the fundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution.
"This resistance must reach in this coming year to such levels as to reverse this disastrous course and defeat all efforts to negate our secular democratic foundations," he said.