PM’S job is to divert your attention: Rahul
stamp on the BJP government’s “clean and transparent administration”.
The Bharatiya Janata Party candidate in Charkhi Dadri is wrestler Babita Phogat, whose struggle and that of her coach-father is featured in the hit film ‘Dangal’.
Modi said when he met President Xi Jinping at their informal summit recently, the Chinese leader told him that he had watched Dangal. “He also told me that he saw in the movie what wonders daughters were capable of doing,” the prime minister said.
He said the Centre’s “Beti Bachao Beti Padhao” campaign for the girl child would not have been effective without the support of Haryana’s villages.
“People i n Haryana s ay ‘Mhare chhoriyan choron say kam hain kay (are our daughters any less than the sons). This voice has come from the villages of Haryana, and when this voice takes the shape of a campaign, the world is forced to say that daughters of India are ‘dhaakad’,” Modi said in a reference to the movie.
He said the daughters of Haryana had proved their mettle in all fields.
He predicted a BJP victory in the assembly polls and said there will be two Diwalis this time - a Kamal wali Diwali (a reference to the BJP’S poll symbol) and the other ‘Diye wali Diwali (festival of lights). YAVATMAL: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday called Prime Minister Narendra Modi a “loudspeaker” of certain industrialists, and said his strategy was like that of a pickpocket who diverts people’s attention before stealing.
Addressing an election rally in Yavatmal district ahead of the October 21 Maharashtra Assembly polls, Gandhi said the Prime Minister speaks of the moon and abrogation of Article 370 in J&K , but is silent on issues being faced by farmers and the common man, like joblessness.
“The Goods and Services Tax (GST) and demonetisation broke the back of small and medium enterprises, farmers and labourers. Till the Modi government is in power, the issue of joblessness will continue to haunt the country,” he claimed.
Criticising the government’s decision to waive off corporate tax, Gandhi said certain industrialists were given such benefits, but not the poor sections of society. He claimed the government was planning to privatise country’s assets like ports, Air India, coal mines and PSUS.
“Modi is the loudspeaker of Adani and Ambani. Like a pickpocket who diverts attention of people before stealing, his (Modi’s) job is to divert your attention so that he can pass your money to a select few industrialists,” he alleged.
While the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, Right to Food, land acquisition and tribal laws were being amended, the amendment of GST was not acceptable to the government, he said. The country’s economy is run by farmers, labourers and mid-size businesses, he said.
“When the poor gets money, he starts buying, when the demand rises, manufacturing gets a boost,” he said, adding that the NYAY scheme, proposed by the Congress, was to jump-start the economy.