Modi doesn’t know country run by people, not by one man: Rahul

Baloda Bazar, November 13

Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday launched a diatribe against Prime Minister Narendra Modi for “misleading” people on India’s development.

Addressing a rally here ahead of the second phase of polling in the state on November 20, Gandhi said as per Modi, development of the country began only after 2014 when he became the prime minister.

“He (Modi) doesn’t know that the country is run by people and not by a single man. He insults you by making such comments,” the Congress president said.

Demonetisation and implementation of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) was aimed at breaking the back of small and medium businesses, Gandhi said. The Congress would encourage youth to do business and get loan facility from banks, he added.

The Congress is not against big industrialists, but if government gave them benefit, small and medium business should not be neglected, he said.

“Nirav Modi, Mehul Choksi, Vijay Mallya fled the country with thousands of crores of rupees belonging to the people of India. PM Modi does nothing to bring them back to the country and doesn’t utter a word on the issue,” he said.

He claimed that the CBI director was removed from his post at 1 am to stop a probe into the Rafale deal. “If there is an investigation, only two names will come up: Narendra Modi and Anil Ambani. Modi is scared of a probe,” he said.

Gandhi claimed that Anil Ambani was chosen over HAL for the Rafale deal despite HAL having 70 years of experience in manufacturing fighter aircraft.

“Anil Ambani didn’t have the experience. He may not have made even a paper aeroplane,” he said.

Gandhi said there is an undercurrent in favour of the Congress in the 18 constituencies of Chhattisgarh which went to polls on Monday.

Results from Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and other poll-bound states would go in favour of the Congress, he said.

Chhattisgarh is rich in resources, the Congress president said, adding that the “dream of the state was shattered due to the misrule” of the BJP government.

Promising a “people’s government” in Chhattisgarh in case voted to power, he said people wanted a government which listened to their ‘Mann ki Baat’.

“Instead of working for a few industrialists, the Congress will work for development of agriculture, education and health in the state,” Gandhi said. PTI