PM unable to list even one achievement of his rule: Priyanka
April 05, 2019 22:42
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi
Vadra on Friday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying he should tell
the country what he did in the last five years instead of seeking an account of
the work done by former prime ministers Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira
Gandhi.
Priyanka, who was speaking
after holding a road show in support of party candidate Dolly Sharma, alleged
that the prime minister was serving lies to the masses and is unable to list a
single achievement of his five-year
tenure.
"He has an obsession
with our family. He says Nehru did this, Indira Gandhi did this, but Modiji
what did you do, you must say what you did in five years," she said
addressing party workers at Maiwara after her roadshow covered 2.5 km stretch
starting from GT Road Ghantaghar where she garlanded the statue of freedom
fighter Bhagat Singh.
"He
came out to campaign after five years in office but could not list a single
achievement," she claimed.
The
Congress general secretary said that people of Modi's Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi told her that
the prime minister 'never visited any village' and only 'comes
and gives speeches'.
"The
prime minister did not get five minutes during his five-year rule to met even
one family in his own constituency. You have seen he has travelled the whole
world.
"He hugged people in Japan,
in the US also he hugged, in
Pakistan he ate biryani, in China he hugged, in Africa he hugged, but have
you seen him hugging any poor family of Varanasi".
She said Modi 'calls himself a nationalist but he refused to open
his door when the farmers reached Delhi
to speak to him'.
"Farmers
are committing suicide, youths are desperately looking for employment.
Hefty loans of industrialist have been waived. In Bhadohi district near Varanasi all carpet
industries are facing financial crunch due to GST and most of the units have
closed down," Priyanka
said.
"On one side is
propaganda politics, while on the other is the politics which wants to work for
you," she said.
Urging the
people to study the Congress manifesto, she said Rs 72,000 will be given to poor
families every year and loans of the farmers will be waived.
"When we say this, the
prime minister says from where will the money come. They have money to waive
loans of industrialists but not of farmers, they don't have money to build your
roads or to bring you water," he
said.
She alleged that the small
shopkeepers, traders and industrialists, who supported the Bharatiya Janata Party, 'have been
killed by GST'.
Earlier, the
road show was to start from Dudheshwer Nath temple where Piryanka Vadra was to
offer prayers to Lord Shiva. However, it was later curtailed.
DIG Upendra Agarwal said the
district administration had no objection to the route of her road show and her
visit to the temple, but her programme might have been changed by the SPG due
to security reasons.
BJP's V K
Singh and Suresh Bansal of SP-BSP-RLD combine are the other main contestants in
the fray from Ghaziabad.
-- PTI