Cong takes dig at PM’s I-Day speech, calls it another rhetoric
Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Sunday hoisted the national flag at the party headquarters in the national capital to mark the country’s 75th Independence Day. She was accompanied by her son and party leader Rahul Gandhi. Apart from them, other senior leaders present at the ceremony included Mallikarjun Kharge, A.K. Antony, and K.C. Venugopal.
Interestingly, leaders from the G-23 change seekers were also present at the flag hoisting ceremony, including Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Ghulam Nabi Azad, and Anand Sharma.
Reacting to the speech made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday, the Congress charged him of just making announcements in all his Independence Day speeches and not implementing them.
Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala also took a swipe at the Prime Minister over his announcement of `100 lakh crore investment in the infrastructure sector, saying it was the same two years ago.
“It has been two years since August 15, 2019. At least the `100 lakh crore figure could have been changed,” he said in a tweet in Hindi while posting the news of the Prime Minister’s I-Day speech in 2019.
Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge said that for seven years the country has been listening
to the ”same speeches” by the Prime Minister but nothing is being done for any aggrieved section, including small farmers.
He also took exception to the Prime Minister targeting the previous regimes on the issues of small farmers and development, saying the country will not progress by criticising the Congress from the ramparts of the Red Fort again and again.
He said, “The Congress has done a lot of work for this country during its regime such as providing irrigation systems for the farmers. Manmohan Singh ji and Sonia Gandhi ji waived farmers’ debt, in addition to several other initiatives, when the UPA was in power.”