NEW DELHI: Corporate India had been complaining in private about Sangh hotheads derailing the development agenda, but on Tuesday it decided to speak up.
The new FICCI president, Jyotsna Suri, minced no words. “It (recent statements of hotheads) is certainly diluting the focus and it is uncalled for. It is detrimental to the (development) agenda… The government should do some straightening out. It’s definitely diverting (focus). It is an irritant,” she told TOI.
Recent statements such as minister Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti’s ‘Ramzaade-haramzaade’ tirade, HRD ministry creating a controversy over Christmas holiday and VHP and RSS leaders’ stridency on religious conversions, have only helped the Opposition to hold up Parliament and prevent the passage of several key Bills. “Look at the headlines, they are about conversions, not development,” said a honcho
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