Rahul hits out at PM’S ‘chowkidar’ campaign
KARNATAKA RALLY Accuses Modi-led govt of making false promises and taking away jobs KALABURAGI :
Mocking the Prime Minister’s ‘ chowkidar’ campaign, Congress president Rahul Gandhi Monday said Narendra Modi was attempting to convert the whole country into chowkidars after being “caught” in the Rafale fighter jet deal.
Attacking Modi’s “Main bhi chowkidar’ (I too am watchman) blitz, he said “Chowkidar was caught indulging in theft and as he was caught, chowkidar says the whole of Hindustan is chowkidar. “But before getting caught, the entire Hindustan was not chowkidar.”
Gandhi stepped up the attack a day after BJP intensified its “Main bhi chowkidar” campaign with Modi and other party leaders, including its president Amit Shah prefixing the word chowkidar to their names in their Twitter profile.
Modi’s Twitter account profile identified him as “Chowkidar Narendra Modi” as did other BJP leaders in a coordinated cam- paign against Gandhi’s sustained “Chowkidar Chor Hai” jibe at the prime minister over the Rafale deal. “Before getting caught only Narendra Modi was chowkidar. Thief has been caught (chor pakdagaya).
The whole country knows that “Chowkidar chor hai”,” Gandhi said at a public rally here in the constituency of Congress leader in the Lok Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge, in north Karnataka. He told the crowd, “You had saidChowkidar chor hai. But yesterday and day-before-yesterday Narendra Modi was attempting to turn whole country into chowkidars.” Gandhi said, “when he became Prime Minister, he said don’t make me Prime Minister, make me chowkidar, do you remember? He had never said make whole of Hindustan into chowkidaars.”
He told the youth of Karnataka that Modi “took away” jobs from them.
“HAL had to manufacture the aircraft, youth of Karnataka had to get jobs, but Narendra Modi said, No. Chowkidar will give it to Anil Ambani.”
The Congress president has been accusing the ruling BJP of wrongdoing in the Rafale deal. Both the Centre and Anil Ambani have refuted the allegations.
Gandhi said the Prime Minister had also made false promises where ever he went, like putting ~15 lakh into each citizen’s bank account and providing jobs to two crore youth.
The Congress president charged the Prime Minister and RSS with attempting to scrap the Constitution. “It is Narendra Modi’s wish that just as he scrapped ~ 500 and ~1,000 currency notes through demonetisation, he wants to scrap the Constitution,” Gandhi charged.
Gandhi said the Congress would never let Modi and RSS succeed in their mission.he alleged that the note ban was effected without asking the RBI.