BJP has cost India jobs, made country weaker: Rahul in LS
■ ‘You have brought Pak and China together, this is the single biggest crime’
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday launched a scathing attack on the BJP-led government, saying that it has not just weakened India internationally by isolating it, but also internally by using the judiciary, Election Commission and Pegasus to "destroy the voice of the Union of states".
In a fiery speech in Lok Sabha, Mr Gandhi also targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying the "idea of a king is back,” which the Congress had smashed in 1947.
India, he said, is facing the biggest unemployment crisis in 50 years with 3 crore people losing jobs in 2021, but instead of focusing on that, institutions are being captured and states are not being
allowed to speak.
"UPA government pulled 27 crore out of poverty and you have pushed 23 crore people back into poverty," Mr Gandhi said and accused the government of creating monopolies in the formal sector
“Today 10 richest people
in India control wealth equivalent to 40 per cent of Indians,” he said.
The nation, he said, is at risk as it is completely isolated from outside and fighting inside, "And that is a very dangerous place for a nation to be," said Mr Gandhi. “You have
GANDHI ALLEGED that Modi government has brought back the idea of a central ‘king’, which Congress had smashed in 1947. He said that India is facing biggest unemployment crisis in 50 years with 3 crore people losing jobs in 2021.
He said that institutions are being captured and states are not being able to speak to each other. He said that today India is weak than what it was 10 years ago.
brought Pakistan and China together. This is the single biggest crime that you could commit against the people of India,” he added.
Mr Gandhi said that the strategic goal of India’s foreign policy was to keep
Pakistan and China separate. “What you have done is that you have brought them together. Don’t be under any illusion or underestimate the force that is standing in front of you. China has a plan,” he said.
“I am clearly stating in the house of Parliament that we have made a massive blunder and we need to make absolutely sure that we can defend ourselves against the Chinese. Because the Chinese will act,’’ he said.
“We are surrounded by Sri Lanka, Nepal, Burma, Pakistan, Afghanistan and China. Everywhere we are surrounded. We have been weakened. India is weaker than what it was 10 years ago,” Mr
Gandhi said, and added, “Ask yourself why you were not able to get a guest on Republic Day?”
Tearing into the government over unemployment, Mr Gandhi said because of “your flawed vision two Indias are being created.” One India of the rich and the other of the poor. “The gap between the two is growing,” he said.
“You keep talking about Make in India, New India, Start-Up India… but joblessness is only increasing.. Make in India is not possible anymore. You have destroyed ‘Made in India’… Our youth are not getting jobs and the jobs that were available have been lost because small industries which could have contributed to it have been destroyed,” Mr Gandhi said.