Rahul’s fresh jibe at PM, this time on bullet trains

Tribune news service /Pti

Lucknow, July 29

Taking a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the second time in two days, Rahul Gandhi today said the tickets for the bullet trains promised by him will not be less than Rs 10,000 and that “only Modiji and his suited-booted friends” will travel in it.

During his “interactive political walk” across a 100-metre ramp at the massive Rama Bai Ambedkar ground, Rahul said the bullet trains would be out of bounds of the common man.

“Modi says he will bring a bullet train which will cost around Rs one lakh crore. When the entire Railway budget is Rs 1.40 lakh crore, he wants to bring one train for Rs 1 lakh crore,” Gandhi told party workers in an interactive session here.

“For whom is he bringing bullet train...what will be the cost of its ticket..it will not be less than Rs 10 to 15 thousand...it will be for Modi and his suited-booted friends,” Rahul said. He claimed that atrocities on Dalits had increased under the present BJP rule in states like Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Haryana. He said it was time to launch a movement for the rights of the farmers, marginalised, dalits and minorities.

Rahul responded to 50 questions of the district and block level party workers who had thronged the venue, exposing the myth that the Congress party was nonexistent at the grassroots level in UP.