Blaming the Centre’s wrong economic policies for the price rise, growing poverty and unemployment in the country, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president Nitin Gadkari on Friday said, “The economist Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has failed the nation.”
“The bad governance and wrong economic policies by the UPA government at the Centre has led to increasing poverty, unemployment and price rise. The poor has become poorer and the rich richer due to this,” Mr Gadkari, who reached here on his maiden two-day visit to the state after he took over the charge of the party, told reporters in the evening.
“The inflation rate in India now stands at 11.52 per cent where as other countries in the region like China, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Indonesia have recorded less than two per cent inflation. Per capita income of nearly 90 per cent population of the country is a paltry $2 a day. Nearly 77 per cent of the population of the country lies below poverty line as per the Arjun K. Sengupta committee report,” he said to drive his point home.
Ironically, the economy of the country is in disarray when an economist is heading the nation, he observed, adding, “It is unfortunate that the great economist PM has failed the nation.”