Hitting out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday accused him of “shielding the interest of a few businessmen” while ignoring the interests of the farmers and the poor.
Accompanied by AICC general secretary Jyotiraditya Scindia, he was addressing an election rally in Lakhimpur to support party candidate Zafar Ali Naqvi and Nighasan assembly bypoll nominee Atal Shukla.
Claiming that during his last visit to Kheri, Modi had assured farmers in Uttar Pradesh that they will get their sugarcane dues within 14 days, the Congress chief asked, “Has any assurance come true in five years?” “Narendra Modi in 2014 made a number of false assurances of ‘achhe din’ (better days), of two crore jobs, of Rs 15 lakh in every bank account but none of them came true,” he said.
Raking up the Rafale issue, the Congress chief said, “Anil Ambani, who never manufactured an airplane, was awarded with a Rs 30,000 crore contract, but cane farmers were told that cane-farming caused sugar (diabetes) when they demanded their dues.”
He claimed that his party will form government at the Centre and that “after the Lok Sabha polls, the next target was (UP) assembly elections (in 2022) to ensure that the state is at the top in education, health and employment as before.”
{{/usCountry}}He claimed that his party will form government at the Centre and that “after the Lok Sabha polls, the next target was (UP) assembly elections (in 2022) to ensure that the state is at the top in education, health and employment as before.”
{{/usCountry}}Earlier, Congress general secretary in-charge of west UP Jyotiraditya Scindia made a scathing attack on the Modi and Adityanath governments and accused them of ignoring the farmers and youths. “The Modi government promised to reduce the input cost by half and double the support price of farmers crops. But after five years, the cost has doubled while MSP has come to half,” he said. Scindia also raised the issue of stray cattle, mob lynching in the name of ‘gau-raksha’ and farmers suicide. “People were beaten up in the name of gau-raksha but even now gau-matas were roaming on the roads and no gau-sewak was there to take care,” he said.