Modi Government’s Historic initiative

: Dr. Udit Raj, Member of Parliament from BJP today

said that this is for the first time in the history of Lok Sabha that a discussion on the budget

was centered around the ministry of Social justice & Empowerment. He congratulated and

thanked Minister for parliamentary affairs, Shri Venkahiah Naidu & Minister for Social justice

& empowerment, Shri Thawar Chand Gehlot for the same. Congress has ruled the country

for around 55 years now but never ever did so.

STs must be appropriated as per their population, Congress couldnot ever do so,

Budget ’14-’15 has seen a rise in the funds for SC/ST and Adivasis and for that I thank and

congratulate Sh. Arun Jaitley”. He further added ,”the funds allocated by the Central

government for the development of Dalits & Adivasis will through various schemes and

programmes lead to their development, It must be seen that the state Governments do not

misuse the funds. It has been seen in the past that this money has been misused , a case in

point is the diversion of Rs.700 crores towards the Asiads. The fallacious argument given

in its justification is that SC/STs shall too be beneficiaries of the programmes funded by the

diverted funds. He further said that right now Central govt diverts funds to the state

government for its utilization but that should be avoided. For instance, there is a huge

probability that the state government in UP will misuse the funds earmarked for the

development of SC/STs as it has openly executed Anti-Dalit activities.

Dr. Raj, today in the parliament, slammed the Congress and asserted that at least

the Congress party should not preach on this matter. It is entirely because of Congress

that apart from reserved constituencies, SC/ST community cannot even think of entering

the Parliament. If Congress would have actually cared for the empowerment of the SC/ST

community, they would have executed programmes for their real empowerment and then

the community would not have had to solely rely on reservations.

Finally Dr. Raj said that one can’t rectify Congress’ past mistakes in one go and

that it will take some time. Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi today has said, “My

destiny is to do what could not be done for them in the past”.

Dr. Raj today said in the parliament “The budget for the development of SC/