PM wants youth to be glued to phone, starve to death: Rahul
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday offered prayers at Ujjain’s Mahakaleshwar Temple as his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra reached Madhya Pradesh’s pilgrim city. Mr. Gandhi was accompanied by former Chief Minister Kamal Nath among other party leaders. The former Congress president’s visit, however, was met with a crowd present at the temple raising “Modi, Modi” slogans as he was entering the main entrance.
Earlier in the day, a similar incident was witnessed in Shajapur when a group of BJP workers raised slogans in the name of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and even chanted “Jai Shri Ram” in front of the Congress leader.
Mr. Gandhi, however, briefly stopped his vehicle and went to meet the BJP workers and shook hands with them.
Later in Ujjain, he said
that he shook their hands as it is easy to do away with hatred. “Today, I met some BJP men. They were shouting and carrying their party flags. But when I got down the car and asked them how they were doing, they stopped shouting and started smiling. And then when I was leaving, they were giving me flying kiss,” he said.
“So, it’s not that difficult [dealing with such situations],” he said.
In Shajapur, Mr. Gandhi hit out at the Prime Minister stating that Mr. Modi
only wants the youth of the country to be “glued to their phones, chant Jai Shri Ram and starve to death”.
He also said that the banks were not giving loans to the youth to start businesses whereas the government was waiving loans of thousands of crores of big industrialists.
Meanwhile, State Chief Minister Mohan Yadav took a swipe at Mr. Gandhi’s yatra saying that the party, which did anyay (injustice) throughout its tenure in power is taking out a nyay yatra.