‘Modi created two Indias, one for rich & another for poor’
DAHOD: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of creating two Indias, one for the rich and another for the poor, and claimed that the resources of the country are being given to a few wealthy people.
Launching his party's campaign for this year's Gujarat Assembly elections at an Adivasi satyagrah rally' in tribaldominated Dahod district, Gandhi said he was confident that Congress will come to power in the state.
This is the first public rally of the Congress party in Gujarat in the run-up to the 2022 state elections, due in December. In 2014, Narendra Modi ji became the prime minister of India. Before that, he was the chief minister of Gujarat. The work he started in Gujarat, he is doing in the country. It is called the Gujarat Model, Gandhi said.
Today, two Indias are being created, one India of the rich, a few select people, billionaires and bureaucrats who have power and money. The second India is of the common people, he said. The Congress party does not want two Indias but equality for everyone, he said.
Gandhi said Congress wanted proper distribution of resources for everyone, which it had ensured when in power in the past. In the BJP model, people's resources such as water, forest and land which belong to tribals and other poor people, are being given to a few, he said.
The Congress leader also said that the Bjp-led government in Gujarat had deprived tribals of their rights.
The BJP government will not give you anything, but take away everything from you. You (tribals) have to snatch your rights and then only you will get what is yours, he said.
Gandhi said that tribal people worked hard to build roads, bridges, buildings and infrastructure in Gujarat but didn't get anything in return, including good education and health service. He also slammed Modi over handling the coronavirus pandemic in the country.
During the pandemic, the prime minister told you to bang pots and pans (from balconies) and flash your mobile lights when three lakh people died in Gujarat. The Ganga river was filled up with bodies. Between 50 to 60 lakh people died in the country due to coronavirus, he alleged.
You did not get oxygen, you did not get medicine, you were treated outside hospitals as no space was available and they told you to bang pots and pans, Gandhi said.