'Life unbearable for common man under UPA regime'

New Delhi, Mar 25: The RSS has expressed its disappointment over the performance of the UPA government during the last three years, saying life for the common man was 'unbearable' irrespective of whether the Prime Minister was a member of the 'Nehru family or a family minion'.

'Organiser', the RSS mouthpiece in its editorial column said the talk of 'scaling back the growth' by Planning Commission Deputy Chairman three years after the UPA government promised a double digit growth was indeed a face-to-face with reality. It was a 'crude admission' that the UPA had sqaundered away the benefits of inheriting a strong and vibrant economy three years ago.

Two of the top planners had spoken of 'overheating' of the economy and its impact on spiralling prices. Homes for middle class was proving to be a 'nightmare' with the galloping interests on housing loans turning to be a perpetual debt trap.

With three years of economic mismanagement, pilferage and sloganeering behind the UPA, there were clear indications that the UPA's fiscal and monetary managements were in a mess, the magazine wrote.

The government had to roll-back taxes on cement, service taxes indiscriminately levied by the government on almost all human activities adding to the chaos. The government, has no clue as to why the life had become unbearable for the common man. "He (common man) is not bothered if a member of Nehru family or family minion is holding the PM's job," the RSS mouthpiece made a caustic remark.

UPA, the RSS said, was immensely benefitted by the strong economic fundamentals left by the NDA where the prices were under control, burgeoning food stocks and a declining poverty line. Now the country was saddled with a 6.5 per cent inflation.

While Finance Minister P Chidambaram was justifying high inflation as 'inevitable' in a growing economy, the Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia was cautioning that India had no choice but to 'slow down' the GDP growth to combat inflation.

Decrying the UPA dumping of NDA's several infrastructural projects like river linking, golden quadrilateral and labour intensive rural roads, the paper noted the Manmonah Singh regime had no vision or time to pursue them.

For three years the UPA tom-tommed the high growth story as its singlemost achievement but now economic failure and disaster on the price and supply side were 'excruciating highlights' of Manmohan's regime, 'Organiser' observed.

UNI

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