“BJP Is Already Out By Hit-Wicket”; Priyanka Gandhi Hit Back At PM Modi’s Comment On Congress
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi hit back at the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s claims that the Congress leaders were “running out” each other, using the same cricket idiom and said that, “BJP is already out by hit-wicket”.
She made a strong pitch for public welfare schemes, and said that the Congress party believes in a democracy, and added that it is people, not the governments which own the country’s wealth and its assets and should be given back to them.
She expressed her confidence that the Congress was comfortably winning in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh where polling was completed recently.
Ms Gandhi took a dig at Prime Minister Modi for saying that the Congress leaders were “running out” each other during a well-attended public rally in Rajasthan’s Ajmer. She clarified that the Congress was completely united and everyone was giving their best.
Drawing strong contrast, she pointed out that, the BJP was totally disintegrated in Rajasthan as all the senior leaders had been marginalized and pushed to a corner. She further added that, the BJP was not having any Chief Ministerial face and Mr Modi was striving to look for one using a telescope. “Congress leaders are not running each other out, you have got out by hit-wicket”, she told Mr Modi.
Appealing to vote for the Congress, she cautioned people against the BJP, which resorts to using religion for votes. She said, “each one of us is religious, but a leader’s biggest religion should be service to people”. The Congress General – Secretary urged people to make the BJP leaders accountable and answerable. She further alleged that the BJP leaders had taken it for granted that they do not need to work as they can seek votes in the name of religion.
Ms. Gandhi asked, why was the BJP not seeking votes in the name of development. And pointed out that in Madhya Pradesh, where the BJP was in power for 18 years, do not have a single thing to show what they had done for the people of the state.
Drawing parallel between Congress and BJP, she said, the Congress government in Rajasthan had provided two lakh jobs during the last five years, whereas the BJP government in Madhya Pradesh had provided just 21 jobs in three and a half years.
She also alleged that the BJP governments, in whichever place they were in office, had nothing for the poor or the middle classes as they worked for the rich only. Priyanka Gandhi also made the remark that, the rich were getting richer and the poor getting poorer in the BJP rule. She pointed out while average income of farmers was Rs 27 per day, Mr Adani earned Rs 1,600 crores per day.
The Congress leader blamed the policies of the BJP ruled central government for rising inflation and unemployment, and pointed out that it was within the power of the central government to control the prices of petrol, diesel, gas cylinder and other things, and yet it did not do anything.
