Hyderabad, February 2
Telangana’s minister for IT, KTR on Thursday called for politicians to focus on economics rather than on politics. He said it was unfortunate that leaders in India focus on politics and not on the economy. while addressing at the NHRD ‘Decode The Future- The National Conference’. He said India is in a perennial mode of elections and politicians were always more focused on winning the elections than creating wealth for the next generations.
“We are the world’s largest democracy and elections happen throughout the year and the leaders are always seized with politics,” he said.
India was the most populous country in the world and yet a majority of the wealth of the nation was owned by a few individuals, he pointed out. He said it was the primary responsibility of every single government to ensure wealth distribution. “We need to think whether the leadership of our nation is giving us the aspirations of being a 25 trillion economy, besides how the wealth can be distributed equally among all sections,” KTR said.
“We are a nation with the maximum number of poor people on the planet. I am not preaching Communism but unless wealth is distributed equitably and unless the government takes care of the most vulnerable, we may have civil strife,” he warned.
Referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s statement that freebie culture is bad for the country, KTR said the fact remains that India is still a third world country.
He said that India which recently surpassed China as the most populous state with 1.4 billion has the biggest advantage both in terms of natural and Human resources.
