Tuesday, August 6, 2013



Senior BJP Leader and MP Dr. Murli Manohar Joshi today took strong exception to the statement of Union Commerce Minister Mr. Anand Sharma appearing in "Dainik Jagran" today in which he has blamed the opposition parties particularly the BJP for frightening the foreign investors which the minister says has resulted in very negligible or rather no turnout of global investors in India. Taking a dig at Mr. Sharma, Dr. Joshi said that it is not the BJP or opposition parties but the unsound economic policies ofthe Government and failure of providing any congenial atmosphere free from corruption is the root cause for no investment till today even after lofty claims made by the Mr. Sharma and UPA Government. It is the inefficiency in the functioning of the government and lack of firmness of policies which is responsible for repelling the investors and not the statements from the opposition parties. Dr. Joshi further warned Mr. Sharma to desist himself such tactics of transferring his own failures to the opposition parties and should not make a total handover of the vibrant Indian Bazars to the hands of global retailers. 

Senior BJP leader said that stability in economic growth and economic policies of the Government coupled with strong currency of the countiy attracts foreign investment and unfortunately on both these counts, the Govt. has miserably failed. Rampant Corruption and gross nepotism in the administrative system under the control  UPA Government has tarnished the image of the country at international level. Passing buck on BJP and opposition parties is nothing but a cover up exercise by Mr. Sharma. The government, if interested in attracting investment should tirst come out Clean with regard to seams in various ministries and assure of a transparent system and sound policies. May l ask the Hon'ble Commerce Minister to explain why Indian businessmen are moving out of India? The BJP is not threatening them. The fact of the matter is that due to unsound fiscal policies and the rampant corruption the UPA government itself has become the biggest threat to the investment environment.

He also said that the issue involves livelihood of more than 5 crore business establishments and crores of people in the country who are dependent upon retail trade for their livelihood and the BJP will leave no stone unturned in protecting their fundamental right of economic justice and right to trade guaranteed by the Constitution of India. It would be proper on the part of Mr. Anand Sharma to remove his FDI dominated spectacles and try to understand the ground realities of Indian retail trade.

Pradeep Kumar Jain
Tel. 23718444 & 23711144

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