Stepping up his attack on Narendra Modi, Congress President Rahul Gandhi today alleged the Prime Minister’s intentions were not clean and instead of addressing the problems being faced by farmers, he was helping his industrialist friends.
He charged that rather than focusing on real issues like unemployment, agriculture, education and health, Modi was busy doing yoga, Swachh Bharat Mission and “making people fight among themselves”.
Gandhi, who visited Nanded village in Chandrapur district in Vidarbha region today to meet the kin of late Dadaji Khobragade, the rural inventor who revolutionised rice farming, later spoke at a ‘chaupal’, an interactive session with the local residents there.
“Prime minister Narendra Modi is giving away thousands of crores of bank money to Nirav Modi and his other friends… How many jobs did Nirav Modi create after taking Rs 35,000 crore from the banks?,” Gandhi asked.
“Had Dadaji Khobragade been given just Rs 5 crore, he would have generated 5,000 jobs. The one who has knowledge, who works hard everyday is not supported by the government… just showering awards does not help,” he added.
He said the bank money should have been directed towards farmers ,small businesses and researchers, which would have created more employment opportunities.
“Modi is channelising the bank money to waive loans of 15 to 20 industrialists and filling their pockets. Nirav Modi ran away with Rs 35,000 crore…This is the amount which the UPA government had put in MNEREGA. The PM did not fulfil any of his promises because his intentions are not clean,” the Congress chief said.
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