'Fin Min appointments influenced by IMF, WB'

Dehra Dun, Feb 14: Accusing the Central government of framing policies that has only benifitted the big industrial houses, former Bharatiya Janata Party National President Murli Manohar Joshi today said the appointments made at the Financial Ministry were ''influenced by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank''.

Dr Joshi, who was here to campaign for the party, took exception to the training programme being carried out for the government officers by an American institute and its assessment report that would decide their future promotion.

''Bureaucracy in India would now function with foreign guidance,'' Dr Joshi lamented. ''My party will raise this question in Parliament,'' he told reporters here.

As per the economic development where China was acting as a global factory, India merely acted as an office. ''India is into 'Babugiri' only,'' he claimed.

Mr Joshi asserted that a country where only a few per cent of common people had been benifitted, could not be termed as development.'' He alleged that Uttarakhand was also destined to face the same fate. ''Voting Congress back to power will be like supporting the wrong financial policy of the Congress,'' he added.

''A stable government attached to the soul of the state was the need of the time and there is no better option than the BJP,'' he claimed.

Criticising the Congress government in the state, he alleged that it had done nothing except for putting it into an ''abyss of debt''.

''The Congress government has not only failed to pay heed to the development of scientific and technical training aspects of the state, but has also failed to harness maximum from the IIT Roorkee,'' he alleged.

Dr Joshi claimed that whatever industrial development had taken place in Uttarakhand was due to the special package conferred to it by the previous BJP-led NDA government.

UNI