Stop Modi’s Baghpat rally: Surjewala to EC

Tribune News Service

Karnal, May 26

Congress media in charge and Kaithal MLA Randeep Singh Surjewala on Saturday asked the Election Commission to stop Prime Minister Narendra Modi from holding a public rally at Baghpat tomorrow, a day before the byelection in Kairana in Uttar Pradesh. He said that if the Prime Minister does not follow the Constitution, who else would.

“The Election Commission should take cognizance of it, as it can influence the election results,” he said.

Surjewala was attending the opening of a four-wheeler showroom of Congress leader Suresh Gupta at Matlauda on the National Highway-44.

Surjewala interacted with mediapersons on the sidelines of the programme. He claimed that four years of the Union government had been a flop show. He said that the government had failed to give relief to farmers, common people, traders and other sections of society.

Surjewala alleged that the government had even failed on the fronts of internal and external security of the country. “Pakistan has been violating ceasefire, while Chinese forces are entering Indian territories regularly. But instead taking stringent steps, the Central government is watching as a mute spectator,” he alleged.

“Farmers are not getting full rate for their produce. Instead of providing relief to farmers under the Fasal Bima Yojana, the government has provided benefit of around Rs 14,800 crore to seven private companies,” he said.

The BJP had promised before coming to power of generating two crore jobs every year, but instead, it could generate only 7.18 lakh jobs in four years. “Demonetisation and the Good and Services Tax (GST) have broken the backbone of traders and common people,” he alleged.

Surjewala said that atrocities against minorities and crime against women were rising across the country.