For the first time since the Winter Session of Parliament begun two weeks ago, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today criticised the Congress for not allowing Parliament to function.
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Thanks to the disruptions in Parliament the bill to increase bonus for poor people is also not able to pass.
“Democracy can not function at the whims and fancies of anyone”, he added.
The Prime Minister had commented in the early days of the session that Parliament was running smoothly and “all parties deserved credit” for it.
He said that, in India, democracy basically meant elections, voting and forming a new government.
Speaking at the Jagran Forum organized by the Dainik Jagran newspaper here, he said that democratic institutions and systems can run well only if people listened to other people’s ideas and assimilated them while diluting their own hard-held views.
Drawing inspiration from the Indian freedom struggle, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that he wanted to make the country’s development journey a “Jan Andolan”. He spoke of how Mahatma Gandhi had turned the freedom struggle into a national movement, in which every person in the country had a role, a task to perform.
He said: “You must have seen that these days this(disruptions) is being seen more”.
My government plans to raise the minimum salary from Rs. 7,000 to Rs. 21,000 so that people can avail bonus. The talk is only centred on GST versus Parliament. “Everyone must feel he or she is working for India’s progress”. He said the more aware people become, the development path of the country will be clear.
Giving details about the schemes launched under his government, Modi informed that 52 lakh people have given up their LPG subsidy.
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Asserting that the two ills that are threats to democracy are “Mantantra” and “Moneytantra”, the Prime Minister underlined the need to protect democracy from the influence of money power.
