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Sir, my friend, Shri Ram Naik is sitting here and he, of course, will also throw some light on this question as to why they are so eager to sell out everything in this country to the foreign parties and foreign business interests.

Sir, therefore, I am totally opposed to this whole Disinvestment policy. It is a cloak to hide what is actually the real motive of the Government and what is going on. Therefore, I would urge upon the House to be vigilant, to keep a vigilant eye on the movements of this Government and to resist, with all possible means, these moves to privatise everything in this country and hand the resources of this country over to foreign parties who are eager to get in.

">Shri Ram Naik was saying yesterday on television that he was also considering a 10 per cent further off-load of the shares of Indian Oil Corporation. It is unfortunate that they talk such things on television and not in Parliament.
">THE MINISTER OF PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS (SHRI RAM NAIK): Since the issue is raised, I will reply to it.
">SHRI PRIYA RANJAN DASMUNSI : I am just reminding him of what he said on the television.
">Sir, with all its right or wrong recommendations, the Ramakrishna Commission, for which I do not hold any brief, submitted seven reports. One of the reports says:
">We are, of course, consistent in our approach. But when we proposed all these things as our philosophy, Shri Ram Naik and those in Government now, raised the flag of Swadeshi. So, I now watch with great interest that if before the dawn of the new millennium anyone is to be rewarded for greater inconsistency in their political prophecies, it is your Government and your Party. Your inconsistency has converted the idea of Swadeshi into sattaseen. To keep the power with you, you accept whatever suits you, forgetting your ideology.
Now, I would like to know from the hon. Minister that out of Rs.18,282 crore, how much money they are planning to spend in order to revive these seven or eight Urea Units of our country which are vitally needed for agricultural production. What we are hearing from the Government is that our public sector undertakings are incurring losses. They never said how much the Government of India had received from the public sector undertakings towards excise duty, sales tax and dividend. They never say about the employment generated by these public sector undertakings. They never say about the social obligations which these public sector undertakings do undertake. Out of the 242 public sector undertakings, only 236 are operational now. There are 74 Ministers!...(Interruptions) How many private sector undertakings like the Enron and the British Gas Company undertake the social obligations like our public sector undertakings? Shri Ram Naik is eager to sell the GAIL to Enron because the Enron is in Maharashtra. They are selling the shares of the Gas Authority of India at throw away prices, whatever price they may get. The assets created by millions and millions of people of our country are being squandered away by the Government. I would like to put this question whether we should allow it or not; whether we should allow this Government to sell out, to squander the assets created by the toil of the millions and millions of workers of our country.