New Delhi,
Feb 5. India’s economy that had recovered from the damage caused by the ‘Great
Recession’ of 2008, cruising at a growth rate of 7.5 per cent, has been
derailed by the Modi government, says former Finance Minister P. Chidamabaram
who feels that the damage done to the economy is as worrying as that done to
the society.
“Everyone who brought sensible ideas to the table to turn the economy around has left the government in disgust and despair,” he says, accusing the ruling dispensation of “manufacturing statistics and asking people to eat statistics”.
He makes
these observations in “Undaunted: Saving the Idea of India”, which is
scheduled to be launched by former Vice President Hamid Ansari on February 8
here.
“An old
civilization that has accommodated many religions, cultures, languages,
communities and castes, and has tried during the last 71 years to become a
modern nation, is so polarized and divided today that there is real cause to
worry about its survival,” he asserts in the Introduction to the upcoming
book.
“Every
value of the Constitution is under attack” in contemporary India
He states that former Prime Minister, the late Atal Bihari Vajpayee, understood the fundamental rules of democracy and “gracefully gave up power after 13 days, again after 13 months, and once again after 5 years” but laments that “his example has been forgotten – and perhaps rubbished in private – by the swayamsevaks in power today”.
He says
“every value of the Constitution is under attack” in contemporary
India and fears that there is a “clear and present danger that the
Constitution of India will be replaced by a document that will be inspired by
an ideology called Hindutva”.
That,
Chidambaram says, will be the end of the ‘idea of India‘,
restoring which will require another freedom struggle and another Mahatma
(Gandhi).
Adds Ansari
in the Foreword: “If the budget is passed without scrutiny and debate by
the Parliament; and if important pieces of legislation are endorsed without
reference to Standing Committees, then it is evident that the Parliament as the
designated legislative institution is not doing its duty and the government of
the day is failing in its primary duty…”
The book, a collection of Chidambaram’s published essays, published by Rupa, is set to be launched on Friday.
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