(ET)
After a three-day general executive meeting in Haridwar, the economic unit of RSS – Swadeshi Jagran Manch – has come out with a strong statement slamming the PSU disinvestment programme of the Modi government. It said the move to divest companies such as Air India, BSNL and BPCL was “opposed to national interest and prone to being misused by corrupt officials to benefit special business houses”.
In October, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat in his Vijayadashami speech had supported the Centre’s foreign direct investment (FDI) and disinvestment ideas and had said the government was compelled to take these steps. SJM has also demanded that Niti Aayog’s report on public sector enterprises be rejected, and stressed on the “need to examine their evaluation keeping in mind the idea of doubling GDP in the next five years”.
