Slamming the Congress-led UPA Government for pushing the country to the brink of economic crisis, BJP president Rajnath Singh held the Prime Minister and his Government responsible for the same.

Addressing a Press conference in New Delhi, the BJP chief said “The nation is facing a severe economic crisis and the Prime Minister has attributed the same to global trends but the BJP holds the Congress led UPA Government for this since its wrong intention and high level of corruption has been the main cause”.

Rajnath further said that the Government claims that trade deficit today amounts to 200 billion Dollars and the Forex Reserve 278-258 billion Dollars. However if medium and short term debt repayments are taken into account then we will be left with not more than a few million Dollars only.

The UPA inherited a strong economy from the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Government, which is now in absolute doldrums, added the BJP chief. NDA rule had succeeded in repaying IMF loans. But the UPA government is planning to sell gold now.

Lashing out at Manmohan Singh’s Government, Rajnath said that this Government neither has the vision nor conviction to address this crisis. The entire leadership has gone

into depression.

Manmohan is the first Prime Minister in the world to say that the poor state of economy is due to the role of the Opposition.

The BJP president said, “I want to remind to the Government that all important financial bills were supported by the BJP so that they don’t face economic hurdles. When there is crisis in the country the responsibility primarily falls on the Government and not the Opposition. Being the principal Opposition our duty is to raise issues that concern our nation”. People have given us the responsibility of being the watchdog of this country and we cannot abstain from that responsibility.

Moreover, the country’s internal and external security have been weaker than ever before under this Government. All this raises our concerns for the well being of the nation, he concluded.