IIT, IIM passouts struggling with unemployment: Rahul

Gandhi said this while addressing the second “Jai Bapu, Jai Bhim, Jai Samvidhan” rally at BR Ambedkar’s birthplace at Mhow in Madhya Pradesh.

The Congress leader said, “Parents spend lakhs of rupees to send their children to private education institutions, hoping that the training will help them in getting employment. But that is hardly the case.”

He went on say that even those passing out from reputed institutions like the IITs and IIMs were not able to secure jobs because of the bleak employment scene.

“The Indian education system is a system of stamps and certifications…The billionaires have destroyed the employment system of the country. When students from the IITs or IIMs are not getting jobs, how will you get it?” asked Gandhi.

Reiterating that the BJP-RSS combination was working to undermine the Constitution, the Congress leader said RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s recent remark -- the country became truly independent the day the Ram Temple in Ayodhya was consecrated -- amounted to insulting the Constitution.

The Congress leader further said that economically and socially marginalised people had no right before the country secured Independence from the British rule in 1947, followed by the adoption of the Constitution in 1950.

The policies of the colonial government were geared up to only benefit the British rulers and the “rajas and maharajas,” who controlled the princely states, Rahul said.

Gandhi said like the pre-1947 era, the Modi government’s policies were also designed in such a way that all wealth in the country got concentrated in the hands of a select few like “Adani and Ambani”.

“The Modi government is working to turn ordinary people into “Ghulam” (slaves),” said Gandhi, asserting that the Constitution could provide safeguard against this eventuality.

Cong anti-Sanatan: BJP

"Rahul Gandhi and the Congress should explain as to why they have such an 'anti-Sanatan' ideology. This isn't the first time that Mallikarjun Kharge said something againt Sanatan. Earlier, he had said that he would end 'Sanatan' if they come to power. Rahul Gandhi can go and take a dip in Italy, we have no objections. But using such words against Maa Ganga is not right." -- BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra

Stating people from upper castes were dominating the top echelon of the bureaucracy and big businesses, Gandhi said Congress-ruled Telangana and Karnataka were on the verge of rolling out “revolutionary” policies that will pave way for population-wise representation in government sector jobs.

The Jai Bapu, Jai Bhim, Jai Samvidhan rallies are being organised by the Congress to protest against Home Minister Amit Shah’s allegedly derogatory comment against BR Ambedkar during the winter session in the Rajya Sabha and Mohan Bhagwat’s comment regarding “true independence” at a function in Indore earlier this month.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, who also addressed the gathering at Mhow, ridiculed BJP leaders for making a public spectacle of the holy bath in the Ganga at Prayagraj on the occasion of the Maha Kumbh.

Kharge asked, “Will their holy bath solve the problem of hunger?” Clarifying that he did not want to hurt anyone’s religious sentiment, Kharge said the BJP leaders were taking the holy dip for live beaming by television cameras so that they could derive political mileage out of the ritual.