New Delhi: Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday took a potshot at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's statement that the last 10 years of his rule was just a trailer and 'picture abhi baaki hai', saying the third term of NDA has seen exam paper leaks, terror attack in J&K, train accident, airport canopy collapse, bridges cave-ins and toll tax hike.
Participating in the discussion on the Motion of Thanks to the President's address in the Rajya Sabha, Leader of Opposition Kharge said the prime minister during the Lok Sabha election campaign stated many times that "pichle 10 saal toh bas trailer tha, abhi asli picture baaki hai" (last ten years was just a trailer, the real picture is yet to come).
"How the PM's picture would be, we have been able to imagine in the last one month," Kharge quipped. Listing out many recent incidents, Kharge pointed out that there have been exam paper leaks, cancellation of many examinations, train accidents, three terror attacks in Jammu & Kashmir, leakages in Ram temple, the collapse of canopy at three airports, increase in toll taxes and depreciation of the rupee.
Kharge said the future of 30 lakh students has been affected due to recent paper leaks. "If this keeps happening, students will stop their study," he said. In the last seven years, there have been paper leaks 70 times, Kharge said, adding that this has affected the future of 2 crore students.
The leader of opposition (LoP) in the upper house further said that the government was not doing anything on this matter and blames opposition parties for raising the issue in Parliament. He asked the government to improve the examination system in the country. Expressing dismay at President's address to the joint sitting of Parliament last week, he said the speech did not make any mention of the Manipur situation.
