Rahul, Priyanka hit out at Modi over hatred, jobs Vent anger through vote: Modi in rally

Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi launched a massive attack on BJP and AAP accusing them for spreading hatred in the society. He said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal were not interested in providing jobs to youngsters, but were keen on making one Indian fight another for staying in power.

Addressing his first rally in the national capital on Tuesday in the run-up to the February 8 Delhi Assembly polls, he said the current environment in the country, the hatred, the violence and the attacks on women were harming ndia and people were not benefitting from it.

Seeking votes for his party candidates, he said, “Modi and the BJP may be benefitting from it, but Indians are not. If you want development and employment, you will have to erase hatred from the hearts of people,” said Mr. Gandhi.

He hit out at the BJP for not addressing the economic slowdown and the issue of unemployment, but instead, encouraging violence. “They (BJP) talk about the Hindu dharm, about Islam, of Sikhism. They have no knowledge of religions. In Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Sikhism, where is it written that attack other people, suppress them?,” he asked the crowd.

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday attacked Narendra Modi over the issue of job losses and took a dig at his “sanyog-prayog” remarks on Shaheen Bagh, asking whether the rise in unemployment was a coincidence or his experiment.

She said a report recently said 3.5 crore jobs have been lost in the last five years in seven important sectors. “When PM comes to give a speech in front of you, he does not even make a mention of it. Can he tell us whether the job losses was ‘sanyog or prayog’,” she said at a joint rally with Rahul Gandhi.

New Delhi, Feb. 4: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said Delhi needs a government that will not resort to appeasement but supports the CAA, abolition of Article 370 and issues related to national security.

Addressing an election rally ahead of the February 8 Assembly elections, the Prime Minister touched on various issues, including the 2008 Batla House encounter, surgical strikes and his government’s flagship Ayushman Bharat scheme, during a speech that lasted a little over an hour.

In his second rally in the city in two days, Modi also referred to the armed forces while training his guns at the AAP government and the Congress and exhorting voters to back the Bharatiya Janata Party. “You must punish those who insult the armed forces. You should vent your anger through your vote. Delhi does not need a government which gives an opportunity to enemies to attack us,” he said at the rally in Dwarka.

At the rally which was also attended by JJP ally Dushyant Chautala, Modi said the national capital also needs a government that will give direction and not resort to blame games.

The anti-Citizenship Amendment Act protests in Shaheen Bagh and other places in the city did not find any mention in his speech, unlike his address in Karkardooma on Monday when he said they were not a coincidence but a political conspiracy to destroy the country’s harmony.