Comments by "M Shastri" (@libshastra) on "Cong’s Anand Sharma slams President Kovind’s speech; questions ‘merger of flames’, Netaji statue" video.

  1. Anand Sharma does injustice to Indians by not ousting the Gandhi family. Sirf bhasan dete hai, 60 saal power mein rahe, kya ukhada in logo ne? Achievements? Let's talk about his achievements. This guy was the commerce minister under UPA between 2009 and 2014. between 2009 and 2011, textiles was growing an average of of roughly 10%. Magar, this guy's National Manufacturing Policy introduced in 2011, that policy couple of just non deliverance on promised infrastructure (this was Sagarmala before Sagarmala) killed whatever meagre investments manufacturers made in anticipation of expected growth. Instead of growing, it killed textiles industry's productivity, value added became stagnant till 2018 (when it finally breached the $35 billion mark), killed a lot of manufacturing jobs in an industry known for labor intensity. If the textiles industry was a country in itself, it would gone through 5 year long recession, 3.5 years under this guy. There were pretty good reasons why UPA (particularly the Congress) was voted out so badly in 2014. This is not sarcasm but whoever wrote his speech, did an injustice to the economy of India.
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