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The Minister has been promoted to the Cabinet rank for his great achievement. I do not grudge. I am happy. We know him. So long as he was a journalist per se, simpliciter he was quite acceptable to everybody. But he is now fighting for disinvestment with great gusto and he is carrying on with his dismantling campaign. He considers himself to be the only effective Minister here. He is the self-appointed advisor to all—to his Party, to his allies, to the private sector, to his colleagues in the Cabinet. Everyday Shri Ram Naik is getting advice, right and left punches, from him. He was carrying on with a spree until he met more than his match in Shri Pramod Mahajan. He had to halt until they were summoned by the Deputy Headmaster or the de facto Headmaster, Shri L.K. Advani. He had chastised both. I do not know who was more chastised. Now there is a quietness. There is no problem.

 

 In this context, I would like to draw the attention of the hon. Minister to the statement made by Shri Dattopant Thengadi, one of the senior most labour leaders in this country. Probably he is senior than Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Shri L.K. Advani. He made a bitter attack on the policies of this Government when he addressed a big gathering atRamlila Maidan. Mass unemployment is behind the menace of terrorism. The problem of Naxalites is increasing. There are anti-social elements. The communal violence is increasing. The data with the employment exchanges alone show that nearly 40 million unemployed people are registered with them in the country as a whole. This excludes the addition to labour force each year and also open unemployment of nearly another 35 million both in the urban and the rural areas which falls outside the registration system. This is the problem today. On one side, we are selling at a throwaway price.