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Wednesday, June 30, 1999

Vaghela flays BJP's `cataract' Vision 2010

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AHMEDABAD, JUNE 29: Describing Vision 2010 as a product of the Keshubhai Patel-led Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government's ``cataract vision'', Rashtriya Janata Party (RJP) president Shankersinh Vaghela said the plan was a half-baked attempt at copying the predecessor government's development agenda.

Attacking the infrastructure development plan for the next 10 years, Vaghela said the BJP government had no right to come out with such a project when a conflict was raging on the border. He described the entire exercise as an election-oriented media blitz and urged the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) to take a serious note of ``this attempt to misguide people''.

The biggest drawback of Vision 2010, according to Vaghela is that ``it does not focus on the common man despite all the hype about infrastructure development''. The plan is ``no more than an attempt to add nothing to the already drafted development plan of the previous government,'' alleges the RJP chief.

There should have been a public debateon the project before it was launched, he said. Criticising the government for borrowing from the RJP government's plan, Vaghela said, ``The Keshubhai Patel government has been unable to achieve perfection. My government had consulted experts from India and abroad and discussed the issues for three days before setting up 15 working groups to analyse the plans at that time''. Setting up of indiscriminate and polluting industries could not be called development, he further added.

According to Vaghela, Vision 2010 does not answer the crucial question: For whom is all this planning being done? The reason, he says, is that it has been drawn up without taking the people into confidence and that too at a time when the country was passing through a critical phase. Vaghela has also criticised Union Home Minister L K Advani for attending the launch programme instead of paying attention to the Kashmir problem.

Copyright © 1999 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.


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