Stop dividing India and I will stop opposing you: Rahul to PM Modi

SABALGARH (MP): Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said he would desist from opposing Narendra Modi the day the prime minister stopped “dividing” the country and started helping the poor.

Campaigning for his party in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh, Gandhi again attacked Modi over his alleged proximity to businessmen, saying he worked for a handful of rich people. Addressing a public meeting here in Morena district, he said, “Someone said yesterday that Rahul Gandhi opposes Narendra Modi. I say that I do not oppose for the sake of opposing, there is a reason. “I will stop opposing Narendra Modiji the day he starts helping the shopkeepers,

labourers and the poor. The day he stops the work of dividing the country, I will stop opposing Modiji.”

Accusing Modi of working for “15-20” rich people, Gandhi said, “Until Modi talks about justice, waives the loans of farmers, stands with the

labourers, whatever the rest of Hindustan says, Rahul Gandhi will stand against him, because I believe you people are behind the progress of the country.”

He alleged that the prime minister, in his Independence Day speech, had insulted the ancestors of those who toiled hard to build this country.

“The US president says only India and China can compete with it (America). The country was poor and hungry 70 years back. There was no city, no railway lines, no plane, no industry and the prime minister says nothing has happened in the last 70 years,” the Congress president said.

He accused Modi of helping his “friends” convert their black money through the demonetisation exercise, under which high-value currency notes were scrapped in November, 2016.

“Two years ago, Modi had imposed demonetisation and made the entire country stand in queues. Did we see a Vijay Mallya or Nirav Modi or Anil Ambani in those queues? Modi helped them convert their black money into white,” he said.

Gandhi attacked MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan over the issue of corruption.