NEW DELHI: In his trademark style, Congress MP Mani Shankar Aiyar today took a dig at Congress party, the UPA government and the Planning Commission, ruing that while India was prospering Indians were not.
He also did not spare billionaire industrialist Mukesh Ambani, making snide remarks about his 27-storey home in Mumbai.
Speaking at a SCOPE function here, Aiyar said, "The fact of the matter is that India is prospering but Indians are not."
"We are a country where domestic servants of each one of us is regarded by Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia as definitely APL (above poverty line)... But the fact that is we are desperately a poor country," he said.
Responding to a query on whether there is any quick fix solution to the issue of unethical practice of private and the government making the public sector undertakings orphans, Aiyar, said, "Yes. There is a very quick fix solution. Does the Congress party, which is the leader of the government, own up to the Nehruvian legacy. Do we still believe in socialistic pattern of society that was proclaimed in 1955.
"It has never been repudiated and to which we are committed to the Congress party. How often has the word socialist been used in a Congress manifesto in the last 20 years," he said.
He also did not spare billionaire industrialist Mukesh Ambani, making snide remarks about his 27-storey home in Mumbai.
Speaking at a SCOPE function here, Aiyar said, "The fact of the matter is that India is prospering but Indians are not."
"We are a country where domestic servants of each one of us is regarded by Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia as definitely APL (above poverty line)... But the fact that is we are desperately a poor country," he said.
Responding to a query on whether there is any quick fix solution to the issue of unethical practice of private and the government making the public sector undertakings orphans, Aiyar, said, "Yes. There is a very quick fix solution. Does the Congress party, which is the leader of the government, own up to the Nehruvian legacy. Do we still believe in socialistic pattern of society that was proclaimed in 1955.
"It has never been repudiated and to which we are committed to the Congress party. How often has the word socialist been used in a Congress manifesto in the last 20 years," he said.
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