Highlights: Nothing to celebrate in UPA-II's four years; govt should apologise, says BJP

• UPA-2 has finished four years today. In the past four years, they have been so unsuccessful that we do not wish to delve into their entire nine-year regime
• Dr Manmohan Singh is the PM but not the leader of the UPA. Allies sit with him in the Cabinet but look towards UPA chairperson for solutions
• There is one-upmanship between the Congress party and the government
• Prices of fuel were raised consistently and each time Sonia would bring the prices by a rupee or so
• So the trend was that the difficult decisions were made by the government but the appeasement was done by the Congress
• Financial situation of the country is a big issue
• We have known financial situation in terms of GDP, fiscal growth etc
• UPA agreed that NDA had given good financial policies in their first economic survey
• Infrastructure projects worth lakhs of crores are pending, according to a news daily
• We gave the UPA-I a booming economy. That scenario has completely changed. No investments coming in, no decisions being taken
• There is mind-boggling corruption, figures that have never been heard of
• The brunt of corruption is being borne by the common man  in terms of inflation
• UPA has also been unsuccessful in foreign relations - Maldives is eye-balling  India, we have been unsuccessful when it came to securing rights of Lankan Tamils 
• India is not doing enough for Tamils
• It took so long to solve the incursion in Ladakh
• The government has failed in foreign policy
• This governance has seen maximum crimes against women
• We are surprised what the UPA is celebrating today
• They should have sat down to apologise to the nation
• They don't believe in democratic process
• When they were appointing the CVC, I had given a dissent note, finally appointment had to be scrapped by Supreme Court
  
• They are now doing the same with NHRC
• They are not going to do anything
  
• They are going to exploit democratic institutions
• The UPA will not introspect but we have decided to stage protests, and launch jail bharo andolan
• If we come to power we'll take policy decisions which will bring relief to the common man
• Wrong to say parties will not come with NDA, some of them were part of NDA till 2004
• Parliamentary board will decide who'll be the face of the party at an appropriate time, why are you so eager?
• Had they taken the resignations (of Ashwani KUmar and Pawan Bansal) on May 8, we would have passed bills on 9-10 (in Budget Session of Parliament)
  

Arun Jaitley:

• Never has the country seen such an atmosphere of gloom, cynicism and pessimism
• This is all because the governance of UPA 2
• They have the ego of being in power
• The propaganda isn't being accepted by the people
• The opinion polls suggest that UPA 2 popularity is going down drastically
• The danger of excessive propaganda is that you accept your own propaganda
• They look towards the UPA chairperson for the present, to someone else for the future, as if there is no political role for the PM
• Don't remember any other period where the office of the PM has become a target of sarcasm and humour
• This is the state of India
• We had a booming economy because of NDA which was given to UPA
• Policy paralysis wasn't even used when the economy was at 2%
• UPA suffering from policy paralysis
• UPA's only achievement is using CBI to its advantage
  
• If they did not misuse the CBI, then perhaps the Samajwadi Party and BSP would not have saved them with 'outside' support
• Lokpal law is ready but they have not brought it on the floor of the House
• They have put up a futile attempt by setting up a GoM for CBI
• Lokpal legislation which need recommendations for Delhi police are already been given, but they don't want to move ahead
• Confident that election results will be spectacularly in our favour
  
• Third Front is a failed idea, the polity of India has become increasingly bi-polar