‘Govt’s policies creating two India…’: Rahul Gandhi’s jibe at BJP in Gujarat

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, who on Monday addressed two public rallies in Gujarat in the middle of his Bharat Jodo Yatra, accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of planning to displace and hand over tribal people to the ‘first owners of the country’. charged up. forest to industrialists

According to news agency PTI, he also said that the policies of the ruling party government are creating ‘two India’, which includes the selected billionaires and the poor.

Rahul Gandhi addressed two rallies in Gujarat yesterday, one at Mahuva in Surat district and the other at Rajkot.

The Wayanad MP said he felt the pain of farmers, youth and tribals during his 3,500-km-long Bharat Jodo Yatra, while also taking up the tragedy of the Morbi bridge collapse that killed 135 people last month. He alleged that no action was taken against the ‘real culprits’ as they have good relations with the BJP in Gujarat, PTI reported.

Addressing an election rally in Rajkot, Gandhi said, “Chowkidars posted citing bridge collapse were arrested, but no action was taken against the real culprits as they are associated with the BJP.”

He addressed issues of public interest like unemployment, inflation, demonetisation effect, faulty GST and waiving off lakhs of crores of NPAs, reports PTI.

In the 2017 Gujarat Assembly elections, the Congress had won 77 seats. now grand old party It is trying to challenge the BJP, which is trying to come to power for a seventh consecutive term in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state.

Speaking about his Bharat Jodo Yatra, Gandhi said, “This padayatra was for the unity of the country and during the cross-country padayatra I heard the problems of farmers, youth and people from the tribal community and felt their pain.”

“They (BJP) call you ‘Vanvasi’ (forest dwellers). They don’t say that you are the first owner of India, but that you live in forests. Do you see the difference? It means they don’t want May you live.” Watch your children become engineers, doctors in cities, learn to fly planes, speak English.”

(With PTI inputs)

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