Monetisation will rob reservations and the country's key assets: Mallikarjun Kharge

He urges intellectuals to drop their silence on this 'Looto aur Baato'

Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge sees the National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP) of the Modi government robbing off the hard-earned reservations for the scheduled classes, scheduled tribes and backward classes with the Congress-created assets landing in the hands of a few individuals. Mr. Kharge said the intellectuals' silence on this ‘selling spree’ will harm the nation not just financially but also socially. This is a danger that is camouflaged in the name of monetisation policy, he said in Hyderabad. He was addressing the media as a part of the Congress party’s nationwide campaign against monetisation. He said the mixed economy concept of the first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru created 89 Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) that changed the very course of development in modern India with assets created and the economy growing strengthening people financially. But the Modi government just wants to blindly sell these precious assets instead of creating more.