Jaitley calls Kumaraswamy ‘Tragedy King’
New Delhi: Union minister Arun Jaitley has said Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy’s emotional outburst was a result of a non-ideological opportunistic alliance with no positive agenda.
Writing a blog on his Facebook page today, Jaitley said the basis of the negative agenda of the opposition parties is “Keep Modi Out”.
Jaitley said in the past few days the country has witnessed Kumaraswamy baring his emotions with tears, wetting his eyes and declining to accept bouquets and garlands. The Karnataka CM, he said, was candid enough to publicly state “I am swallowing my pain just nothing more than poison without sharing it… I am not happy with the situation for the last one month. Nobody knows the jugglery… If I wish, within two hours, I can step down from the office”.
The senior BJP leader said listening to these statements of a chief minister, his memory took him back to the dialogues of the tragedy era of Hindi cinema. “If this is the consequence of a two-party coalition, what is it that a disparate group of parties with no ideological similarity offer to India?” he said.
Jaitley noted that India is today passing through a phase where a great opportunity awaits it. For the next one decade and more, the country needs a high trajectory growth.
“We are faced with the global challenge of terrorism and the current economic challenges thrown up by rising crude oil prices and the trade war. To confront these challenges, India needs a strong and cohesive government. More so, it means a decisive political leadership,” he said.
The minister observed that the situation needs a government which is able to resist unfair pressures of either allies or regions. It is the high growth rate, investment into rural India and the social sectors, credibility and strength of the Indian economy which will help us to be domestically strong to meet these challenges, he said.
Jaitley was of the opinion that if fighting terror has to be compromised because of vote bank pressures of allies, then such a government would be a liability and curse on the nation. “Can a leadership unsure of itself meet the challenge of eliminating poverty and transforming the world’s fastest growing economy into a developed nation?” he said.
Talking further on coalition and a weak leader, he said such non-ideological opportunistic coalitions always get trapped within their own contradictions. “Their only object is survival and not service of the nation. Their longevity is a suspect,” he said.
Commenting on Kumaraswamy’s weeping in the public, Jaitley said if the prime minister of such a coalition has to weep before the cameras with an only wish of how to exit from office, it will be a scenario worse than the policy paralysis of UPA II.