Is the ‘Clown Prince’ out-clowning himself: Arun Jaitley
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Shri. Arun Jaitley
Many young Lawyers
practising criminal law used to get an advice early in their career from
Veterans in the field. They were told “if you are strong on facts, bang
the facts. If you are strong on law, bang the law. If you are weak on
both, then bang the desk.” Those who advise Rahul Gandhi appear to have
persuaded him that he is cut out only for the third option. Since
beating the desk itself would not suffice, it has to be accompanied with
a new narrative. If the factual narrative does not suit him then
concoct an alternative. Repeat the false narrative a dozen times and
convince yourself that falsehood is in fact is the truth. Thereafter,
you can comfortably live in self-delusion.
Or is it a case of mendacity –
The onus now lies on me to
substantiate what I have said. Rahul Gandhi’s speeches and tweets
display repeated examples of this. I give five examples.
A. He
repeatedly says that a private business house in India has got an
advantage ranging from Rs. 38,000 Crore to Rs. 1,30,000 Crore. He
further argues that what was to be manufactured by HAL is now being
manufactured by a private business house with no experience.
THE TRUTH
: Rafale aircraft and its weaponry is not being manufactured in India
at all, neither by Dassault or by any other private company. All 36
aircrafts and their weapons in a fully flyable and usable form will
arrive in India. After the supplies begin Dassault has to make purchases
in India for 50% of the contract value. This is as per the UPA’s policy
to promote make in India. If the total deal is for Rs. 58,000 Crore,
50% of that amounts to Rs. 29,000 Crore. These supplies to Dassault are
to be made by over 120 offset suppliers and which the business house
named is one of them. Dassault has said that only 3% of offset may come
to that business house which is less than Rs. 1000 Crore.
B.
He repeats congenitally despite being corrected several times that once
an account is declared as NPA it amounts to a loan waiver. He then
builds a false narrative of the PM having waived the loan of his 15
friends.
THE TRUTH :
Loans were given during the UPA period. Not a single Rupee has been
waived. The Promotors of the defaulting companies have been thrown out
through the IBC, and banks are successfully recovering their dues.
Through the process of NCLT banks are recovering their loans.
C.
A cliché that he learnt was as to question why mobile phones could not
be manufactured in India? I corrected him by mentioning that when UPA
went out of power there were only two units manufacturing mobile phones
and their accessories. Today there are 120 units and expanding. He then
changed his example. He now tells his audiences why footwear are not
being manufactured in the district, where he is speaking. Ill-informed
as he is, India has become the second largest manufacturer of footwear
in the world. Our exports in footwear are about Rs.20,000 crores each
year. He just has to take a trip to Bahadurgarh on the outskirts of
Delhi to realise the competitive nature of India’s footwear industry.
D.
On GST he mentions that it is flawed and needs to be changed. India has
witnessed the most successful implementation of the GST. The country
has become one market, all check-points have been abolished, inspectors
have disappeared and like Income-tax, the returns are now filed online
and most assessments will be online. All States, including Congress
ruled States have approved the model and the rates. In the first 13
months, the Congress legacy of 31% tax (Excise + VAT + CST) has been
reduced to 18% and 12% in relation to 334 commodities. This has also
helped us to check inflation. He seems to be unaware of this.
His Latest Concoction
E.
Yesterday, while speaking at two different functions in Madhya Pradesh,
he made two references to me in each of his speeches I am annexing
clips of his speeches as they appear in the social media. In the first
one he says that I have admitted that Vijay Mallya met me in Parliament.
He further claims, I have further admitted that Mallya told me that he
was escaping to London and that I helped him to escape. He says in his
second speech that I have admitted that Nirav Modi also met me in
Parliament. He claims that I have admitted that he had a meeting with me
and told me that he was going out of the country and I helped him to
escape.
THE TRUTH :
I do not recollect ever having even seen Nirav Modi in my life. The
question of his meeting me in Parliament does not arise. If he came to
Parliament, as Rahul Gandhi claims, then reception records would show
that. Where have I admitted all this Mr.Gandhi?
As a Member of Parliament,
Vijay Mallya once chased me in the corridor of Parliament to discuss his
case. I did not pay any heed to him and coldly told him to make his
proposal to the bankers. This he says constitutes a meeting where he
told me that he was escaping to London. Absolute lie.
How does he concoct this
falsehood? At the Hindustan Times Summit, he referred to a meeting he
had with me and attributed same statements to me. When asked I merely
said that ‘I can’t answer hallucinations. I am in the distinguished
company of President Macron’. Today I feel it is much more than
hallucinations. Is it a personality issue where he lies a dozen times
and then in self delusion believes it to be true or is it a case of a
‘Clown Prince’ out-clowning himself?
Source- https://www.facebook.com/notes/arun-jaitley/is-the-clown-prince-out-clowning-himself/894561670732382/
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