Raam Naam Japna, Paraya Maal Apna: Rahul Gandhi's sharp Rafale attack at Modi in Cong Parliamentary Party meet
Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday took a sharp dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi while addressing members at the Congress Parliamentary Party meet. He said that since RSS and the BJP have come to power, the country has seen a systematic attack on every single one of our institutions.
Addressing the meet, Gandhi raised the electoral promises made by Modi (Creation of 2 crore jobs for youth a year, doubling of farmer’s incomes, bringing back black money stored in Swiss banks, depositing Rs 15 lakhs in the account of Indian citizen, lowering of petrol price) and touched upon the issues of women safety, justice for Dalits, Assam NRC, farmers issue, demonetization and GST among others.
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad, Mallikarjun Kharge, Jyotiraditya Scindia and several other party leaders attended the meet.
Stating that the party was meeting at a time when there is crisis of governance under Modi government — marked by corruption, total economic failure, incompetence and spread of social divisiveness —, Rahul Gandhi said, "There is a rising tide of anger against the current ruling dispensation that calls upon all of us to work very hard to give the people of India the alternative they deserve – an alternative to the bogus promise of Modiji’s ‘Achche Din’.
Gandhi also termed the Modi government as 'failed' and said that every single institution is being penetrated by their people and the nature of institutions itself is being changed.
The Congress leader also hit out at Modi government over the issue of corruption including Rafale and called it 'corruption of century'.
"Modiji came to power on the claim that he would wipe out corruption in the country and provide a very clean government. The Rafale scam, involving over 1.3 lakh crores of public money and designed to bail out debt-ridden corporate cronies of Modiji is symbolic of the true ‘sanskar’ of this government – 'Raam Naam Japna, Paraya Maal Apna'," Gandhi said.
Rahul also said that the people of India are looking up to the Congress and its allies to help remove the Modi government and replace it with one which will listen to them, understand their problems and provide solutions that reduce poverty, unemployment and inequality in the country.
"There is a great responsibility that is being placed on all of us today, to win this historic struggle between the forces of democracy and social justice versus those of autocracy and social hierarchy. We have to ensure that the forces of hate, division, and violence that are trampling upon the Constitution of India are prevented from coming back to power,"
Here's what Rahul said in Parliamentary Party Meet
► Four years of Modi Rule later, sadly, India today looks more like a train that is being driven to disaster by an autocratic, incompetent and arrogant driver, who does not care what happens to the passengers he is responsible for.
► The People of India are demanding change. They will no longer be fooled by your Magical Train that is headed for a bad accident.
► Farmers around the country are agitating on the streets every day demanding better prices, loan waivers, infrastructure and other facilities. The much-hyped PM Fasal Bima Yojna turned out to be bonanza for Insurance companies who has amassed 13,000 Cr from farmers.
► Farmers are being crushed by the huge burden of debt that the Modi Sarkar refuses to wipe out while it is happy giving debt waivers to large corporate houses who have looted Indian banks.
► Youth are restless and discontent at the lack of opportunities to earn and live with dignity. Cabinet Ministers of this government are now publically saying there are no jobs.
► The failure of Modiji to provide 2 crore jobs a year would be laughable if not tragic consequences of his failure for Indian youth. Leave alone creating new jobs the reality is that existing jobs have been disappearing during his regime.
► Notebandi has neither curbed corruption, black money, counterfeit notes. According to the RBI the amount of currency notes in circulation in the Indian economy is 99% of what it was before demonetization!
► Few days ago the Indian rupee fell to its lowest point ever, past Rs 69 to the US dollar. Investors are stampeding out of India. Growth is declining. Bank credit to SMEs is negative in the last 4 years.
► People like Nirav Modi have pocketed Rs 35,000 crore and run away from the country. Instead of catching these thieves like Nirav Modi or Vijay Mallya, Modi ji gave Mehul ‘Bhai’ Choksi a clean chit in Nov 2017, enabling him to obtain Antiguan citizenship. This ‘Bhai’ looted PNB of 13,000 Cr, before scooting from India.
► We have to restore hope in the eyes of the Indian farmers and youth, about their right to dignified life and decent incomes. We have to give relief to ordinary families being crushed under the dual burden of household debt and rising prices of essential goods. We have to ensure the safety of Indian women. We have to ensure the protection of our Dalit brothers and sisters and that they get justice.
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