Rahul attacks govt over economy, says BJP distracting the people
MUMBAI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday launched an attack on the Narendra Modi-led government at the Centre, alleging that economy was in trouble due to their decisions. He warned the situation could worsen in the next six-seven months and said the Centre was diverting the attention of people from “real issues” with Article 370 and Chandrayaan.
Launching his campaign for the Maharashtra Assembly elections in Mumbai, Gandhi addressed rallies at Ausa in Latur district and Chandivli and Dharavi in Mumbai. “The trouble has just begun. Watch, things could worsen in six-seven months. The Congress and Manmohan Singh took years to improve India’s economy, which has been destroyed now,” Gandhi said.
He warned that if the unemployment situation continued for the next six months, the government will face the wrath of people. “Unemployment has reached its highest mark in the last 40 years. More than 2000 factories in the country have been closed down. The automobile sector is shattered,” said Gandhi, who is a star campaigner for the Congress in the crucial elections. “
Wait for six months and if this continues, there will be chaos. Farmers and unemployed will snatch their rights.” “They [the government] won’t utter a word on these problems, but continue to divert your attention.” He also criticised PM Modi over Chandrayaan, saying it took years for the ISRO to build its capability and now somebody else was taking credit for its work.
“Chand pe rocket bhejne se Hindustan ke yuva ke pet me bhojan nahi jayega (Youth in India won’t get livelihood by sending rockets to the moon),”he remarked. “The BJP is looting the country just the way British invaders did. The automobile industry is collapsing, small businesses are hugely affected and unemployment is at its worst in the past 40 years.”
Gandhi also indicated that he would not let the Rafale issue go. “The whole country knows that there was theft in the Rafale deal.
The defence ministry had clearly said that the Prime Minister was interfering in the deal. There is guilt within the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) ministers as the name Rafale hurts because of which the defence minister had to go to France to collect the Rafale fighter jet.” Gandhi also accused the media of distracting people’s attention from the “real issues” like the “downfall of the economy”. He claimed that “divisive politics” was one of the reasons behind the closure of scores of factories in the country.