Chidambaram on Mersal-GST, Smriti Irani, Jharkhand starvation

     Written by : SMTV24x7 | Mon, Oct 23, 2017, 06:57 PM

Chidambaram on Mersal-GST, Smriti Irani, Jharkhand starvation

Chidambaram has slammed, BJP for deaths in Jharkhand due to starvation, smriti Irani for questioning Rahul Gandhi's growing popularity on social media and the Election Commission for not announcing the Gujarat election dates along with Himachal Pradesh.

Chidambaram on deaths due to starvation in Jharkhand:
There are enough foodgrains. The government stocks are more than adequate to address starvation and hunger. If people are dying for want of food, the blame has to be laid squarely at the door of the government, state government in this case. Such deaths mean that the NFSA (the National Food Security Act) is not being implemented. The Department of Food and Civil Supplies has been negligent and the district administration has been callous.

On BJP demanding deletion GST scenes in Mersal's movie:
A movie is an expression of speech. A movie can criticise a government. No one has the right to demand that such dialogues should be deleted.

On Smriti Irani alleging that Rahul Gandhi's Twitter handle is working with bots:
How many bots have been found and located? Why assume that if there is a re-tweet from a foreign country, that must be by a fake handle? Even if we assume for the sake of argument that a dozen re-tweets were fake, what about the thousands of re-tweets from persons admittedly living in India? What about the thousands of likes?