Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Friday said the BJP’s demonetisation, GST and farm bill policies are weapons aimed at India’s poor and small entrepreneurs. Addressing a rally at the end of the 30th day of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, Gandhi said that the BJP has destroyed businesses with its policies.
Demonetization and GST, both are weapons. The farm laws that apply here are a weapon. These are not policies. They are weapons aimed at India’s poor, at India’s workers, at India’s small and medium enterprises, and they are very effective weapons,” he said. Gandhi had earlier met and walked with a young differently-abled person.
The Congress leader alleged that the BJP is creating two Indias, one with the richest of the rich and the other with millions of poor. We started Bharat Jodo Yatra because we see huge problems in our country. We see an ideology that spreads hatred, anger and violence throughout our beautiful country. We are seeing huge levels of unemployment in Karnataka and the rest of the country and we are seeing a tsunami of price rise,” he said, attacking the government.
Gandhi said he had spoken to several education experts. He said a teacher asked him, “Why is our way of life, our history, our culture, our Kannada language under attack? Why is the famous history of the people of Karnataka, the history of Basava ji erased from our textbooks? Which force attacks Basava in Karnataka? The Congress leader said he met the farmers throughout the yatra. He said ragi farmers are not getting MSP even though they should.
Last year, MSP was Rs 3,377 per quintal but farmers got only Rs 2,000, Gandhi claimed. A limit of five quintals per acre has been introduced this year, he added. The former Congress chief also questioned why farmers are being charged GST. He said money is disappearing from the pockets of ordinary people and going to someone else.
The second richest man in the world is close to the Indian Prime Minister. He was never the second richest in the world. Actually, he wasn’t even on the list. “Suddenly, this man climbed the list of the hundred richest people in the world like a rocket,” said Gandhi. “Imagine that the second richest man in the world is an Indian, and at the same time he has climbed the list like a rocket, money flew out of your pocket like a rocket,” he added. AICC General Secretary in charge of the state Randeep Surjewala shared a picture of the Bharat Jodo Yatra in Karnataka’s Mandya and Hassan on Twitter: “The nation will rise as one. We the people will defeat the politics of hate and fight decisively against rising prices and unemployment.
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