Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday, 15 January, accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of remembering tribals solely forward of elections and mentioned his authorities is attempting to befool tribal communities by altering names of previous schemes.
Kharge additionally requested why the expenditure on tribals has decreased drastically throughout the Modi authorities.
Kharge made the remarks after Prime Minister Modi launched the primary instalment of Rs 540 crore to 1 lakh tribal beneficiaries of a rural housing scheme underneath the Pradhan Mantri Janjati Adivasi Nyaya Maha Abhiyan (PM-JANMAN) through video conferencing and mentioned the ten years of his authorities have been devoted to the poor.
“Even when for elections, at the least the prime minister has remembered the welfare of tribals and varied tribes at present after 10 years,” Kharge mentioned in a put up in Hindi on X.
“We need to ask three inquiries to the Modi authorities — why has crime towards tribals elevated by 48.15 per cent in comparison with 2013? (NCRB). Why are the double engine governments of the BJP fully failing to implement the ‘Forest Rights Act, 2006’?
“Earlier than this occasion, why was there a steady decline within the expenditure of the Growth Scheme for Notably Susceptible Tribal Teams (PVTGs) of the Modi authorities’s ministry of tribal affairs? It has fallen from Rs 250 crore in 2018-19 to solely Rs 6.48 crore in 2022-23. That is what the parliamentary committee says,” the Congress chief requested.
