NEW DELHI, Nov 7:
In an attack on BJP’s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, Union minister Kapil Sibal today said that instead of sharing their vision on issues, opposition leaders were discussing matters like erecting statues.
“The debate that we are hearing in the country is – you have done this, you have done that, you have damaged the country. Talk issues,” he said, adding that the present political discourse was revolving too much around criticism and opposition.
“What is your vision on health, education. What is your vision on the economy. What is their alternative vision, nobody is discussing that. And what is being discussed is that we want to raise a statue. That statue, it is a feeling, you keep it in your heart. The feeling of unity arises from the heart or can it be created by erecting statues,” he said.
Sibal was apparently referring to Modi’s pet project of installing the tallest statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in Gujarat.
He said that those who focussed solely on criticism and opposition, cannot succeed.
“What we should see is a debate on issues like what kind of a country we should have. What kind of education should be provided to children to allow them to grow,” he told reporters here.
Earlier, Sibal told an event organised by the CII that in India the discourse at the political level kept looking back to the past.
“In the dicourse at political level, you always remember the past, we never talk about the future. That what our Prime Minister had said in 1950. You should talk about what your PM will say in 2025,” he said.
Sibal said that was the kind of change needed and the academic world could speak out and bring that change.
“People must provide a vision for the future, an alternative vision for the country. Nobody talks this is my policy, this is what I want to do. They only say your policy is bad. Have you ever heard one person in the opposition saying this should be the education policy of India,” he said.
“Why because they don’t think about it. They only think of what wrong has been done. We are not superhumans that everything we do is right,” he added. (PTI)
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