Arun Jaitley’s statement on Jayanti Natarajan’s letter(full text/video)

New Delhi

Reacting to former union environment and forest minister Jayanti Natarajan’s letter published in a newspaper today, union Finance minister Arun Jaitley gave following statement to media persons:

“In today’s newspapers, a letter written by former environment minister Mrs. Jayanti Natarajan has been published. What was so far rumored has been established to be true. Any government that administers the country, its foremost responsibility is to administer the economy of the country. The growth rates had radically gone down during the UPA government, and one of the prime reasons was that there was delay in approvals to be granted to projects. Projects worth lakhs and lakhs of crores were held up for want of permissions. Today’s letter conclusively establishes that it was not these statuary and mandatory considerations which waid with the ruling party in the government, but what waid with them was the whims of political leaders of the party as to who is to be granted an environmental permission and who is not to be granted an environment permission. When whims overtake legal requirements this becomes a textbook case of crony capitalism, and this is exactly what UPA government was practicing. The UPA govt was practitioner of sadistic economy. A sadistic economy that the UPA tried to build up was vindictive in nature, wanting to teach some people a lesson and wanting to favor some people. This obviously had to be for corrupt and collateral reasons, and this is precisely why India suffered in the last few years of the UPA government. I hope the environment ministry will now go into each of these permissions that was granted or not granted and make sure that these are expeditiously delt with only as per law and no other consideration.”

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