Bharatpur [Karouli],Sharpening his attack on
Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi on Sunday said the BJP leader would have “ousted”
even Atal Bihari Vajpayee like party veterans Jaswant Singh and L K Advani had
the former PM continued being in public life.
The
Congress Vice President took a dig at Modi for his statement at rallies asking
voters to make him the “chowkidar” (watchman) of the country, saying the BJP PM
candidate was a “chowkidar” only to businessmen and had ousted senior leaders
and “brought in Adani”.
“He
(Modi) boasts of development in Gujarat, but it was not a single man who
changed Gujarat. It was the hard work of labourers and farmers who made
Gujarat. “He wants to get the keys (control) of the country in his hands but
what happened in Gujarat? People gave him keys but he brought in (businessman)
Adani,” Gandhi said at a public meeting here.“A
group of Sikh farmers from Gujarat told me that their forefathers migrated from
Pakistan to Gujarat and they put in their hard work and efforts to make the
land allotted to them fertile. Now, Gujarat government officials have
asked them to leave the state saying they were outsiders,” he said, adding the
same treatment was meted out to senior leaders in BJP.“L K
Advani and Jaswant Singh were told ‘you are outsiders go from here’. If Atal
Bihari Vajyapee would be in public life today, he would also be asked the same
thing,” he said.
Questioning
Modi’s claims on development of Gujarat, Gandhi again raised the issue of
allotment of farmers’ land to industrialists. “45,000 acre land, an area equal
to Bikaner, was doled out to a businessman in Gujarat for Rs 300 crore. One
rupee for one square meter. This is toffee model because you have a toffee in
one rupee. If you are surname is Adani, you can get farmers land at such a rate
under toffee model,” Gandhi said
He
alleged that development for BJP is “development of selected businessman”, not
for people at large. “Textile industry has been closed.Farmers lands are being
snatched.If you have Rs. 11.50, you are not poor in Gujarat. This is the
reality of Gujarat,” he said.
Gandhi
said that the UPA government empowered the common man and the poor in the last
ten years by way of various rights including MGNREGA, RTI and Right to Food,
and lashed out at the Gujarat Chief Minister for not ensuring that people gets
advantages of RTI.
“There
is no Lokayukta and RTI commissioner in Gujarat because the day when they start
working, the balloon of Gujarat model would collapse on ground,” Gandhi said.
Highlighting the achievements of UPA government, the Congress vice president
said 15 crore people were pulled out of poverty and a “new class” of 70 crore
people emerged who are above the poverty line and the middle class level.
He
promised that his party would bring this new class under middle class in next
five years. “We would empower them by giving their children scholarships, loan
and other helps,” he said.
“BJP
people say that their government made roads and generated electricity more than
the Congress government but the fact is that we have constructed three times
more roads than the BJP government. We generated two times more power than
their government. Our previous government in Rajasthan also performed well in
power sector,” he claimed.Pointing
out the the industrial corridor project, he said, “We have started work on
roads, electricity because we want to empower people with the growth.” “They
want to make two Hindustans, one of rich people and businessmen and the other
of poor people. They make people of Maharashtra fight against the people of
Uttar Pradesh, they want that poor should not unite whereas our objective is to
unite and empower poor so that they can get benefits of development,” he said.
Gandhi,
who was addressing the meeting in a stadium here, said that Congress has worked
for poor, dalit, farmers and underprivileged whereas the opposition BJP wants
to run government for 5-6 selected businessmen. The Congress Vice
President said that his party leaders use decent language in their address
unlike the rival candidates.While
election was held on 20 seats on April 17, the rest five setas in Rajasthan
will go to polls on April 24.
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