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RSS, BJP believe in dividing people, says Rahul
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi alleged on Saturday that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) believed in dividing the people but one could not run the nation by spreading hatred.
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi alleged on Saturday that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) believed in dividing the people but one could not run the nation by spreading hatred.
“The country belongs to all the people who live in India. Congress believes in spreading love and unity,” Gandhi said while addressing a gathering at Islamia College in a Muslim-dominated area of Mathura.
“Two and a half years ago, Modi had promised jobs for youths and Rs 15 lakh in the account of every citizen. But he has failed to fulfil his promises. Farmers, labourers, small shopkeepers and defence personnel are the worst affected but the government is unmoved,” he said.
“I ask the prime minister to tell the people what he will give to defence personnel in the 7th pay commission. With the dollar falling, the central government has much money in reserve which can be utilised to help the farmers and other deprived sections,” he remarked.
Continuing his attack on Modi for favouring industrialists, Rahul said, “We wrote off farm loan worth Rs 70,000 crore but Modi waived off Rs 1,10,000 crore of his 15 industrialist friends.”
“The BJP leaders are branding poor farmers, who took away cots from ‘khat sabhas’, as thieves. But for them, Vijay Mallya, who has run away with crores of rupees, is just a defaulter,” he remarked.
He later, left for Agra to hold a road show.
