Lucknow, February 28 (UNI) Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav has slammed the BJP on the crisis faced by the small business community in the country and claimed that under the BJP rule, the country’s business has achieved nothing but recession and shutdowns.
Mentioning a comment made by a small businessman that “These are not us, but our corpses standing here,” Yadav said, this itself shows how the business community is feeling about the BJP.
“This angry statement by a businessman’s family against the BJP government is nothing less than a death knell for the BJP,” SP president wrote on his social media platform on Saturday.
Yadav said, “Indeed, every segment of society has come to understand that the BJP is only interested in a few billionaires and large corporations and wants to destroy small businesses. The BJP uses the excuse that small businessmen and shopkeepers evade taxes. Today, trade unions across the country are asking the BJP, ‘When these big businessmen, both nationally and globally, weren’t there, did the country not receive taxes?’.
He said, “The truth is that corrupt BJP leaders want to hand over all business to a few ‘super-profiteers’, so that they can receive billions in political and personal donations in one go, and continue to form governments by distributing money through this ‘super-corruption.’ But now, every businessman and their families have understood this ‘cunning BJP ploy,’ because the loss of business has raised the question of their livelihood and survival.”
Yadav further said, “This commission-seeking by the BJP and the free rein given to mega-profiteers are the reasons for the rising prices of everything and inflation. This is also reducing demand, as the unemployment caused by the BJP’s wrong policies, which are anti-business and anti-employment, has led to a recession in the market, and a shutdown will inevitably occur after the trade deal. Therefore, from now on, the BJP’s biggest blow in every election will come from the struggling street vendors, small shopkeepers, businessmen, small and large factories, and local entrepreneurs and industrialists.”
