Budget Has Nothing To Address Rising Prices: Priyanka Gandhi
New Delhi, February 2: Congress general secretary Ms Priyana Gandhi Vadra today criticised the union budget, saying it did not address the basic issue of rising prices in the country.
Addressing a public meeting at Seemapuri in support of the party candidate Rajesh Lilothia here today, the Congress general secretary referred to the huge public money spent by Modi and Arvind Kejriwal on advertisements for personal glorification.
She said, both the BJP, which was in power at the centre for ten years and the Aam Aadmi Party which was in power in Delhi for eleven years, had betrayed and let down people of Delhi.
She referred to Modi’s recent promises to people of Delhi and asked, why he did not do all this during the last ten years. She also asked why Modi remembered now that the gas cylinders should be provided for Rs 500 each, just ahead of the elections.
Ms Vadra criticised Modi for distorting and misinterpreting her mother’s compassionate remarks about President Droupadi Murmu. She said, Ms Sonia Gandhi expressed sympathies with the President. It was one elderly lady sympathising with another elderly lady and Modi tried to make any election issue out of it. She urged people not to let leaders like Modi and Kejriwal deviate from the real issues, which concern them like unemployment, rising prices, pollution and women security.
She pointed out how Kejriwal had maligned former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit over the safety and security of women. But are the women feeling safe and secure in Kejriwal’s Delhi, she asked.
The Congress general secretary reiterated and reaffirmed the guarantees of her party to provide Rs 2,500 every month to women in Delhi, Rs 8,500 monthly stipend to unemployed educated youth, Rs 25 lakh health insurance cover, cooking gas for Rs 500 per cylinder with ration kit and 300 units of free electricity every month.
She quoted the example of the Congress ruled states like Karnataka, Himachal Pradesh, Telangana, Jharkhand (where Congress is an alliance partner of the JMM), saying women were getting monthly stipend in these states.
Besides, she added, the Congress governments had earlier waived off loans of farmers and provided health cover up to Rs 25 lakhs in Rajasthan.
She said, while Kejriwal had spent Rs 450 crores on advertisements, Modi had spent thousands of crores on similar advertisements for self propagation. She said it was people’s money which they were misusing for personal promotion.
