On the final day of Nyay Yatra, Rahul slams Adani, Modi
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi continued his tirade against billionaire industrialist Gautam Adani during his visit to Dharavi, one of the largest slum clusters in the world, on Saturday.
He underscored the significance of Dharavi’s residents, affirming, “Desh dalal nahi, Dharavi ke log banate hai [the nation is shaped by the people of Dharavi, not by brokers].”
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra joined the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra led by her brother on the final day, as it made its way through Dharavi before concluding at Dadar’s Chaityabhoomi, the memorial of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar.
The 6,000kilometrelong yatra, which began from the conflictridden Manipur on January 14, entered Mumbai on Saturday after covering 110 districts in 16 States in 63 days. In its last leg, the yatra crossed into Maharashtra from Gujarat on March 12 and passed through Nandurbar, Dhule, Malegaon, Nashik, Palghar, and Thane before reaching the country’s financial capital.
Dharavi should be India’s manufacturing capital, he said and added, “It’s the talent capital of the country and your skills should be supported. The banks should give you loans. But, the dalal [Mr. Adani] is snatching your land, and the Prime Minister [Narendra Modi] is backing him. This land belongs to you.”
Dharavi is the true embodiment of Make in India and they are being looted roundtheclock by the current government, he stated. “The fight is between talent and dalal [Dharavi and Adani],” he said.
The slum, home to nearly 58,000 families, , will be redeveloped by the Adani Group after it won the tender in November 2022.
Accompanied by AICC general secretary (organisation) K.C. Venugopal, State incharge Ramesh Chennithala, and Dharavi MLA Varsha Gaikwad, the Wayanad MP lashed out at the Enforcement Directorate, terming it an “extortion directorate”.
On Sunday morning, Mr. Gandhi will undertake a Nyay Sankalp Padyatra from Mani Bhavan to August Kranti Maidan.
Later, Opposition leaders, including National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin, his Jharkhand counterpart Champai Soren, RJD leader Akhilesh Yadav, will attend the public rally at Shivaji Park here.