The party sought to underscore what they call the pro-corporate image of the government and heaped scorn on PM Modi’s Make in India initiative. It is not Make in India, it is Take in (From) India, Rahul Gandhi said, adding “Only his (PM Modi’s) selected friends will benefit from it.”
“Modiji says that there should be Make in India, but there’s no place for labourers and farmers in his Make in India,” he added.
Calling the government’s U-turn on land bill following the recommendation of a joint committee of Parliament a Congress victory, Mrs Gandhi said Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not understand the “seriousness of the protest by the Congress Party”.
“But when he saw the power of protest he had to take a step back,” she said. “The battle (over the land bill), she said, has now shifted to other states.”
The Congress had launched a protest against the amended version of the land acquisition bill, which was to replace the law passed by the UPA government in 2013. But following a massive protest by the opposition which was spearheaded by the Congress, the bill had been sent to the joint committee of Parliament.
But Mrs Gandhi said the situation of the farmers has not changed.
“The farmers are in trouble since the Modi government came to power… There is problem of drought, water, electricity,” she said. “The Modi government has not the time or inclination to solve their problems.”
Rahul Gandhi had held a rally in Bihar’s West Champaran district yesterday. But allies Lalu Prasad, chief of Rashtriya Janata Dal and Nitish Kumar of Janata Dal United had both stayed away, saying they were busy with allotting seats for the polls.
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