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CONFERENCE OF SRI DIGVIJAYA SINGH,GENERAL SECRETARY OF CONGRESS PARTY
Bikash
Choudhury
“Digi Raja” the other name of Sri Digvijaya Singh was on his
element and flowing best; visiting Odisha after a gap of 5 years. His visit was
important which he admitted by spelling out, this being second visit in five
long years. In his initial remarks, he talked spontaneously on recent
revelation on 2G CAG report and
matter connected to presumptive lose of Rs. 1.76 lakh crore and statements
attributed to former director of audit in CAG.
He said the CAG had taken this
figure on the basis of figures given by a complainant who was unsuccessful to
get the spectrum. His main contention was that the allegation of corruption on
2G and Coal Gate frivolous and wherever any evidence found action was taken in
contrast to BJP, that did not take action against two of its presidents while
it removed L.K.Advani from presidentship for his utterances on Mohamed Ali
Jinha under pressure from RSS. He also spoke eloquently on FDI Retail and
mentioned that States are free to take their own decisions and opposition
unnecessarily paralyzing the parliament while forgoing an opportunity to put
the Govt. on the mat by adopting a no confidence motion. At the end he
emphasized that Opposition is a divided house.
Q. Rajiv Gandhi started Ganga
Action Plan and Computerization in Govt.; however, UPA I and UPA II Govt. have
not given much emphasis on the same and has not brought to its logical
conclusion. Can we assume that UPA Govt. is moving away from Rajiv Gandhi’s
Ideals?
Answer: DS- You are misinformed. Govt. is rolling out
broad band connections to villages and introduced computerization in Govt.
against many odds. And, on Ganga Action Plan
Prime Minster is heading the movement and since State Govt. is the executing
partners, inordinate delay has taken place. Arrangements are being made to
clean the Ganga up to ‘Haridwar’ in the first phase and many NGO are involved
in the job; and experiments are being done to produce electricity without
stopping the natural water flow in the river.
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