In a bid to reinvigorate the cadre, who is down and out after the party drew a blank in the last Lok Sabha polls, Congress President Rahul Gandhi exhorted them to fight the upcoming polls with full gusto and vigour. In a 40 minute-long-speech, Gandhi launched an attack on the Modi government. He went ahead and promised slum dwellers 500 square feet houses in 10 days, if the party is voted to power. He also reiterated and promised a minimum income guarantee scheme.
Gandhi once again raised his pet peeve Rafale and mimicked Prime Minister Narendra Modi stating that Modi was struggling to hide his face in the Parliament from MPs, as well as his countrymen during the recently concluded parliamentary session struggling to defend the indefendable.
Gandhi while ridiculing the Make In India campaign pointed out that the mike on his podium was either Chinese or German-make. Hinting that the campaign had flopped he promised that the Congress would push for indigenously manufactured goods out of Dharavi and Mumbai.
Stating that the current dispensation has created the narrative of two Indias, one of the moneyed scamsters like Modi, Choksi, and Ambani, and another of the poor and landless. The other India continues to suffer at the former's hands. He alleged that Prime Minsiter Modi has waived off the debt of 15 select industrialists but, did not implement crop loan waivers for farmers, who are in distress. He took a dig at the PM Kisan scheme of providing Rs 6,000 to farmers with land holding up to 2 hectare saying that the farmers will get just Rs 3.50 per day.
Earlier, Gandhi launched the Congress party's campaign at the tribal dominated Dhule in north Maharashtra. Gandhi accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of not taking a break from his endless public relation exercises even at a time when India-Pakistan relations had hit a nadir. He alleged that Modi has not kept a single promise whether it is the creation of two crore job opportunities or good prices for farmers' produce.
"The Indian Prime Minister can't keep his public relations aside even for five minutes, and that's the difference between him and us," said Gandhi. "He tells the media that India is united after the Pulwama terror attacks, but then immediately targets the Congress."
Congress President also accused Prime Minister Modi of misusing solemn occasions to target the Congress. "He did the same (engage in PR exercises) at the war memorial opening," Gandhi said while referring to the Prime Minister's criticism of the Opposition during the opening ceremony of the National War Memorial in Delhi recently.
At both his rallies, Gandhi welcomed Indian Air Force pilot Abhinandan Varthaman's return from Pakistan's custody and paid tribute to the 40 martyrs of the Pulwama attack.
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