Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of making two Indias, one for the wealthy and one other for the poor, and claimed that the assets of the nation are being given to a couple rich individuals. Launching his occasion’s marketing campaign for this 12 months’s Gujarat Assembly elections at an “Adivasi satyagrah rally’ in tribal-dominated Dahod district, Gandhi said he was confident that Congress will come to power in the state.
This is the first public rally of the Congress party in Gujarat in the run-up to the 2022 state elections, due in December.
“In 2014, Narendra Modi ji became the prime minister of India. Before that, he was the chief minister of Gujarat. The work he started in Gujarat, he is doing in the country. It is called the Gujarat Model,” Gandhi mentioned.
“Today, two Indias are being created, one India of the rich, a few select people, billionaires and bureaucrats who have power and money. The second India is of the common people,” he mentioned. The Congress occasion doesn’t need two Indias however equality for everybody, he mentioned.
Gandhi mentioned Congress needed correct distribution of assets for everybody, which it had ensured when in energy up to now.
“In the BJP model, people’s resources such as water, forest and land which belong to tribals and other poor people, are being given to a few,” he mentioned.
The Congress chief additionally mentioned that the BJP-led authorities in Gujarat had disadvantaged tribals of their rights. “The BJP government will not give you anything, but take away everything from you. You (tribals) have to snatch your rights and then only you will get what is yours,” he mentioned.
Gandhi mentioned that tribal individuals labored arduous to construct roads, bridges, buildings and infrastructure in Gujarat however didn’t get something in return, together with good training and well being service. He additionally slammed PM Modi over dealing with the coronavirus pandemic within the nation.
“During the pandemic, the prime minister told you to bang pots and pans (from balconies) and flash your mobile lights when three lakh people died in Gujarat. The Ganga river was filled up with bodies. Between 50 to 60 lakh people died in the country due to coronavirus,” he alleged. “You did not get oxygen, you did not get medicine, you were treated outside hospitals as no space was available and they told you to bang pots and pans,” Gandhi mentioned.
He alleged that only some individuals run the Central authorities and the persons are silent and scared. “For 24 hours, the media keeps distracting, showing the photo of Narendra Modi, or any actor, actresses, but will say nothing about the truth,” he mentioned.
Referring to the three-month jail sentence handed to unbiased MLA Jignesh Mevani for holding a protest March, Gandhi mentioned, “It is only in Gujarat that you can be sentenced to jail for protesting.” “There are lakhs of youth like Jignesh Mevani who understand truth. Who knows about the Gujarat model of Narendra Modi? I would like to tell them that there is a need for a new Gujarat. It is a matter of your future. You want jobs, education, and health which they will not provide to you. They only know to sell your future to a few billionaires,” the previous Congress president mentioned.
“The youth of Gujarat, whether they are Adivasis, Dalits, you will have to fight together. Congress party is with you 24 hours,” he mentioned. Gandhi additionally mentioned that Congress needed to revive the previous “cooperative model”, which he described because the “model of the people” and “of Amul where the voice of the public runs the government”. He promised the rapid withdrawal of the controversial Par-Tapi river hyperlink venture if his occasion is voted to energy.”
“Here, large statues, Tapi river link projects are made, and your water is snatched away from you and given to the billionaire, and you get no benefit. I want to tell you clearly that once the Congress party wins an election here, we will scrap the river link project,” Gandhi mentioned.
The Congress chief additional mentioned “jal, jungle, and jameen” don’t belong to a handful of industrialists however the individuals of the nation, and likewise spoke concerning the erstwhile UPA authorities’s dedication to take advantages to the individuals via PESA, NREGA, and Land Acquisition Act.
“PM Modi had mocked MNREGA in Parliament, saying he wants to scrap it but will not do so to remind the country of what Congress did. Had MNREGA not been around during COVID-19, you know what would have happened to the country. The BJP is running the same programme today,” he mentioned.
Gandhi additionally spoke concerning the works accomplished by the Congress governments in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh and mentioned that the occasion will fulfil the guarantees as soon as it varieties a authorities in Gujarat.
Recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal had individually addressed rallies in tribal-dominated areas in Gujarat.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”