Priyanka Vadra, the Congress general secretary in charge of eastern UP, launched a scathing attack against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Ayodhya Friday, accusing him of ignoring the poor and his government of focussing only on publicity.
Addressing a gathering at Nauwa Kuan during a 50-km roadshow from Kumarganj to Ayodhya, Priyanka said: “I went to Varanasi, which is the constituency of the Prime Minister. There I asked people if the Prime Minister goes to villages and they said he does not… There is a Prime Minister who did not go to a single poor family, a single village in his own constituency. There is a government which has rejected the people and only does big advertisements.”
Priyanka Vadra, the Congress general secretary in charge of eastern UP, launched a scathing attack against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Ayodhya Friday, accusing him of ignoring the poor and his government of focussing only on publicity.
Addressing a gathering at Nauwa Kuan during a 50-km roadshow from Kumarganj to Ayodhya, Priyanka said: “I went to Varanasi, which is the constituency of the Prime Minister. There I asked people if the Prime Minister goes to villages and they said he does not… There is a Prime Minister who did not go to a single poor family, a single village in his own constituency. There is a government which has rejected the people and only does big advertisements.”
“When the Congress made the announcement, the central government, the Prime Minister and the BJP said this is just because of elections and the country does not have money for it. You tell me, if the country does not have money for this scheme, then how did Prime Minister get the money, Rs 3,17,000 crore, for his scheme under which he waived the loans of industrialists,” she said.
Priyanka also attacked the BJP for not focussing on farmers’ issues and rural distress.
“They said they would bring several big schemes for farmers. Ask the farmers what their condition is. You get Rs 1,600 for paddy. There is a Congress government in Chhattisgarh and they are getting Rs 2,500 per quintal… I went through the fields and saw barricades everywhere. When asked, they said they are so frustrated due to stray animals. Women do chowkidari in daytime and men at night. The government is busy making T-shirts of ‘main bhi chowkidar’,” she said, referring to the BJP’s poll slogan.
“They have a misconception that they can mislead the people. That no matter what they tell the people, as long as it is well marketed and packaged, people would be misled and hand over power to them. This is not happening as you are the ones suffering, your produce is being destroyed by stray animals, you are not getting jobs,” Priyanka said.
The Congress leader also held several “nukkad sabhas”, and visited Ayodhya’s famous Hanuman Garhi temple, where police resorted to a mild lathicharge to disperse a group that started chanting Modi’s name. Asked about the Ram Lalla temple at the disputed Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid site, Priyanka said she decided not to go there because “the issue is sub-judice”.
Courtesy The Indian Express
