The Congres scion said “BJP has helped me a lot, and the loss in 2014 was beneficial. By constantly slamming me, they opened my eyes.”
On Monday, Congress VP Rahul Gandhi slammed the BJP government for not creating enough jobs in the country and even admitted that the Congress-led UPA government could’ve done better.
Speaking in Vadodara, Rahul said that while he admits even UPA government did not focus as much as required on small and medium businesses, the current dispensation is at an extreme. "Our (UPA) record was better than theirs (NDA) but even we were five out of ten. The current government though is providing 450 jobs every 24 hours even though 30,000 youths enter job market daily
He added: “If we do not provide 30,000 to 40,000 jobs daily to our young in the next five to 10 years, no one would be able to control the anger that will spread."
He also said that the Congress didn’t do enough to strengthen small and medium businesses.
He further said: “A leader's job is to look 5-10 years ahead and not implementing things forcibly that will make people cry.”
Looking to play a statesman he would not say that he didn’t want to finish BJP, a reaction to the oft-repeated Congress-mukt Bhakt. He further said: “My family has Gandhiji's values. Felt bad when I saw body of my father's killer Prabhakaran. Told it to Priyanka ,she said she felt bad too.”
He went on to add: “BJP ne meri bahut madad ki,2014 polls jo hum haare usse faaydemand cheez nahi ho sakti. Meri pitai kar-kar ke unhone meri aankhen khol di. (BJP has helped me a lot, and the loss in 2014 was beneficial to us. By constantly slamming me, they opened my eyes.”
Earlier, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi took a dig at the BJP saying the doors of the Gujarat government were open only for a few industrialists.
He made the remarks after offering prayers at the famous Santram temple, on the first day of a three-day tour of the poll-bound state.
"(Prime Minister Narendra) Modiji and the BJP talk big about religion, but the doors of the Gujarat government are just open for a few industrialists. They are not open for all, like the doors of this temple," the Congress leader said.
Gujarat Congress spokesman Manish Doshi had earlier said that his party was "deliberately projected as anti-Hindu" by the BJP and the RSS.
He had said Gandhi's visit to various temples during his tour was aimed at countering the "hardline Hindutva" campaign of the BJP and the RSS.
Gandhi today began the second leg of his poll campaign from central Gujarat.
During his first leg of the three-day 'Navsarjan Yatra' in Saurashtra last month, he had visited five temples, including the Dwarkadeesh temple and the hill-top Chotila shrine.
At the Santram temple here, Gandhi interacted with the temple authorities and told a small gathering that the "tallest leader of the Congress", Mahatma Gandhi, had come to the shrine during the Dandi March in 1930.
"I came to know from the temple management that it does a lot of work in the field of education besides social service. Their doors are open for all whether the poor or the rich," the Congress vice president said.
"It should be so because it is our tradition and it is the tradition of our religion," he said.
The Congress leader is scheduled to visit some more temples in the state.
With inputs from PTI
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