: Loan write-offs for the rich are freebies, not welfare schemes: RJD #IndiaNEWS #India Patna: At a time when a large section of people in this country are struggling to achieve financial empowerment,

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Loan write-offs for the rich are freebies, not welfare schemes: RJD #IndiaNEWS #India
Patna: At a time when a large section of people in this country are struggling to achieve financial empowerment, there are two types of ideologies running parallel in the country. One is to provide help to people who are financially deprived and the other is terming it Muft Ki Revari freebies.
Both the ideologies are directly linked to the Lok Sabha and assembly elections.
In a poor state like Bihar, it is extremely important to make a distinction between what are freebies and what are not.
Mritunjay Tiwari, national spokesperson of the RJD, told IANS: When any government makes policies to benefit people of deprived sections, its called welfare. Nowadays, leaders of a particular party (BJP) are calling it freebies which is absolutely wrong.
The actual meaning of freebies means loan waiver to the industrialists. They are quite capable of managing their finances and leading a good life. I want to ask the leaders of the BJP who are crying about the governments welfare policies related to the common people of the state. During the 2014 Lok Sabha election, BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi promised to give Rs 15 lakh to every person of this country. That was actually Muft Ki Revari which later on turned Jhasa or Jumla. A number of industrial friends of the BJPs top leadership got loan write-offs like Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi, Mehul Choksi, Lalit Modi and many others. That was actually freebies to them who later turned fugitives, Tiwari said.
The Nitish Kumar government has started a bicycle policy for school going girl students, Poshak Yojana (School dress policy), Rs 25,000 to girls for passing intermediate (Class 12) and Rs 50,000 to girls becoming graduates, and diesel subsidies to farmers for a limited period during droughts.
As the government in the state has changed it gives a strong message to the Narendra Modi government at the Centre. The preparations for the crucial Lok Sabha elections in 2024 have started and the BJP is feeling the challenge from the government of the Mahagathbandhan.
In the run-up to every election, promises in education, health, limited free power, free water used to be made by different political parties. However, some of them also promise to distribute laptops, television sets, smartphones with internet facility, bicycles, bikes, monthly fuel quota. CM Nitish Kumar is currently providing 10 litres diesel subsidy to farmers in Bihar per month as 35 out of 38 districts are facing a drought-like situation.
The government welfare policies or freebies are financed by the money of the taxpayers.
Before distinguishing between freebies and the welfare policies for the common people, one needs to understand that certain services like electricity, water, sewerage, transport, health, education cannot be obtained in an individual capacity.

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