Modi is jumla raja, his rule chaupat raj: Rahul Gandhi
Hitting out at the government on the issue of unemployment and farmer distress, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday dubbed Prime Minister Narendra Modi "jumla raja" (king of rhetoric) and his rule "chaupat raj" (regime of ruin).
Using Twitter to take a swipe at the prime minister, he tagged a media report on the unemployment situation in Uttar Pradesh, claiming that youth with even PhD degrees are applying for class IV jobs.
"Farmers do not get the right prices, the youth do not get the right jobs, in 'jumla raja's chaupat raj', no hard working person gets respect," the Congress chief said in a tweet in Hindi.
Gandhi has been highly critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the issue of unemployment and has often accused him of not fulfilling his promise – before coming to power – of providing two crore jobs per year to the youth.
The Congress chief has also attacked Modi for not providing adequate prices to farmers for their produce.
Meanwhile, addressing a public rally in Rourkela, Odisha, Rahul Gandhi reiterated his promise of giving minimum universal basic income for the poor if his party voted to power at the Centre, saying he is committed to his word.
"I cannot promise Rs 15 lakh to you all. But, I can give my word for the minimum income. No one can stop us from providing mininum income to the poor," he said at a rally here.
The Gandhi scion claimed that be it Prime Minister Narendra Modi or Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, they were running their respective governments for "their rich friends".
Intensifying his attack against the Centre, Rahul said: "In the Budget, the Centre's scheme is to provide Rs 6,000 per annum to farmers which boils down to just Rs 17 per day. This is not enough to address their plight."
He added, "This means each person in a (farmer's) family is getting Rs 3.5, whereas (Prime Minister) Narendra Modi has waived off loans of his industrialist friends worth Rs 3.5 crore. Narendra Modi and Naveen Patnaik are running their governments for their rich friends."