NEW DELHI: BJP member
Nishikant Dubey
on Wednesday accused
Congress
of trying to create a
north-south divide
in the country.
"Prime Minister Modi has been here for 10 years, you were in power for 70 years. When you say poverty is not getting eradicated, have you ever looked at yourself? Who is responsible for this?" Dubey asked while participating in the debate on the interim budget in the Lok Sabha.
"Congress created a licence, permit, quota raj... Only Congress-supported industrialists could manufacture cars, scooters, cement... From 2004 to 2014, they went into a loot raj with 2G, 4G, coal scams... Since 2014, not just the Ram temple but Ram Rajya has been brought," said Dubey.
On a day when Congress leaders from Karnataka, led by chief minister Siddaramaiah, staged a protest at Delhi's Jantar Mantar against the BJP-led Centre over "injustice" meted out to the southern state in the devolution of taxes, Dubey accused Congress of trying to create a rift between the north and the south.
He accused Congress of leading to the partition of Punjab and Bengal in the past as it was losing votes and drew a parallel with the present, alleging that they are promoting the gap between the north and the south. "Congress divided India for vote bank politics... If Congress is not getting votes, will they create a north-south divide?" he asked.
Dubey said, "There is neither Dravidian or Aryan... India is one. They talk of a north-south divide, Tamil Nadu and Kerala got more money than Uttar Pradesh and Bihar."
"We are poor, our people go there to work. The entire country knows that more than 80% of the mines are in Jharkhand, Odisha, Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh... Did we say we are rich? Did we say south India should not be developed?" he asked.
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