A youth’s answer to a question asked by a journalist in the background of the upcoming central government budget has now gone viral on social media.
Hello @smitaprakash @ANI Why do you have to interview a common man speaking about the current Economy when you are not going to tweet about it anyways? pic.twitter.com/Vm33uzXFDq
— Mohammed Zubair (@zoo_bear) January 30, 2024
Although a video of him talking to a representative of the news agency ANI went viral, the news agency did not publish it. However, the organization’s Chandigarh representative sent the video to a local journalist. After putting it on social media, it is known that the young man’s words have been contradicted.
Although the details of the young man who spoke are not available, the video was also tweeted by the Congress IT cell.
The young man speaking in the video said, “It has been 10 years since I saw the budget. We are still watching. Looking at the budget of the central government, we do not expect even a cent. I will tell you the reason why,” the young man explained his reasons.
“What we see in the present government is not one, not two, not three, not four, not five. Ten years have passed. We are still looking. It is not the case that there is no money in the country. There is money in the country. The question is, we have to see who has the country’s money. How much cash is in the hands of common people is also important. 99.9% money of this country is with industrialists. They are running this country today,” explained the young man.
“If our country can waive the loans of industrialists to the tune of 11.68 lakh crore rupees, why is it not possible to waive the loans of 2 lakh crores of farmers?” This is my question,” the young man asked directly.
“If the central government speaks, they say that the income of the country’s farmers will be doubled. Did they say that they will do it by 2022? That’s it… double? It has not happened,” said the youth from Chandigarh.
“I don’t know whether TV will show it or not. The reality is that the country’s economy was growing at an estimated rate of 8.1 percent when Manmohan Singh was the Prime Minister. How much is it now? Only percent 5.4 percent. let it go Let’s forget what we announced to do by 2022. BJP claimed it as Jumla. What are they showing now? He is promising that the country’s economy will reach 10 trillion by 2030. Now it is 5.4 percent of our country’s economy. We are just getting over it. If India’s economy has to reach 10 trillion then it has to develop by 15%. 15 percent is required. Who, Modiji will bring?” The young man asked.
What do you expect from a journalist’s budget? When questioned again, he said, “No promise is kept from the budget. They are privatizing everything. Privatization is good. In 1991, the LPG policy (Liberalization, Privatization, Liberalization) came. But now there is a rush to privatize everything.
Privatization is good only when there is good competition in the private sector. If you eliminate competition among private individuals, it becomes a rampant capitalist system. The rampant capitalist system is always very dangerous for the country,” said a youth from Chandigarh, which is now trending on social media.
Using this video, the Congress IT cell tweeted, “The youth of the country is so desperate and disillusioned today that they don’t expect even 1% from the budget. “Everyone should listen to the youth of the country during 10 years of injustice,” he said.
Also, question about ANI not publishing the video
This video was not published officially by the news agency ANI. However, it has been criticized on social media. Mohammad Zubair, a journalist of the country’s famous fact-check website Altnews, has tagged Smita Prakash, editor of the ANI news agency, who has raised a question about this.
“This interview was taken two days ago. But Smita Prakash and ANI have not published it yet. why Because the person in the video was talking against the central government? Does this interview hurt the BJP government? Or was there some instruction from above not to publish this? Mohammad Zubair questioned.
