PM is not a ‘chowkidar’ but a ‘bhagidar’: Rahul

Congress president Rahul Gandhi launched a blistering attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Parliament during the no-confidence motion on Friday.

Rahul started off his speech citing how everybody had become victims of the PM’s “Jumla strikes,” be they farmers, youngsters, Dalits, tribals, fishermen or small businessmen.

The Jumla No 1 was Rs 15 lakh in every Indian’s bank account and then a promise of two crore jobs every year. Rahul said the youth trusted the PM but the government’s own data shows that only 4 lakh got jobs in the last four years.

“Let me explain other way. While China created 50 lakh jobs in 24 hours, you could get jobs to just 400 youth in the same time,” Rahul said, underlining that this had to happen when the small businessmen who provide jobs were assaulted with the demonetisation, he said.

Firing another assault of the GST, he said the PM didn’t stop at that. It was an original idea of the Congress but then opposed by the BJP as also by Modi as then Gujarat chief minister. “We wanted one GST and cover also petrol and diesel, but the PM brought five rates of GST and ruined the small businessmen by putting Income Tax inspectors on them. The PM talks to only the suited-booted top 1520 businessmen and so he did not get feedback from the crushed small ones.”

The Speaker intervened that he can’t refer to BJP President Amit Shah or his son businessman Jayesh as they were not members of the House to defend themselves and Rahul agreed that he was only wondering what kind of “Desh ka Chowkidar” the PM claims to be that he did nothing on someone’s income shooting up 16,000 times.

The truth is that Modi is not a “chowkidar” but a “bhagidaar” in the wrong-doings, the Congress chief said.