Non-Congress govts stored UP backward, compelled individuals emigrate: Rahul in Amethi

By PTI

AMETHI: Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday blamed successive governments of rival events in Uttar Pradesh for its financial backwardness, forcing individuals emigrate to different states as labourers.

Taking a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi mentioned he has been working just for the billionaires, who don’t give employment.

Coming collectively for a joint rally at Kali Maidan in Amethi, which has lengthy been the pocket borough of the social gathering until Rahul Gandhi misplaced it to Smriti Irani within the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the leaders requested individuals to vote for their very own good and youngsters, and never on emotional problems with caste and faith.

“Uttar Pradesh doesn’t lack anything and it can leave all other states behind. You go to Punjab, Maharashtra and other states to work as labourers in search of livelihood. Why can’t you get it here,” Rahul Gandhi requested.

“It’s because for years you elected the Samajwadi Party, BJP and the BSP. All these made wrong promises one after the other and stole money from you,” he added, apparently responding to allegation by the rivals, who’ve been blaming the Congress for individuals’s migration.

Accusing PM Modi of serving to solely large industrialists, he mentioned the billionaires don’t give employment.

“It is small and medium traders and farmers who generate employment and this section, which is the backbone of job givers, has been broken,” he mentioned, including that in these circumstances there won’t be any job for the youth, even for these with correct training.

Saying that the PM Modi had promised two crore jobs to the youth, he requested, “Why is he not speaking about it in electioneering this time?” People are effectively conscious of his “lies” now, mentioned the previous Congress president.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra mentioned the voters should make up their thoughts whether or not they need politics of improvement or the one which entangles them in a “fake web of religion and caste”.

Referring to her go to to a locality in Lucknow just lately, the Congress chief mentioned she there met some youngsters, who had been certified however unemployed.

“Have you brought up your children so that they do not have any future and that they continue to get a sack of foodgrain and remain dependent on it. This is a conspiracy of these political parties to keep you poor, keep your stomachs empty so that your emotions could be exploited by them,” the Congress chief alleged.

This is the federal government of the wealthy and there’s no listening to of the poor, she alleged. “When there may be harassment, neither Akhilesh Yadav nor Mayawati come out of their houses, depart alone Yogi and Modi.

They make the daddy of an accused stand with them on the dais,” she said referring to the Lakhimpur Kheri violence. “Their minister’s son killed farmers. Change these circumstances,” she mentioned, stressing that folks ought to inform events both to work for improvement or depart.

Eight individuals, together with 4 farmers, had been killed within the violence final October. The farmers had been mowed down by automobiles allegedly carrying by BJP staff. Union minister Ajay Mishra’s son Ashish was arrested within the case.

The Congress leaders additionally spoke in regards to the improvement and infrastructure constructing that passed off in Amethi through the Congress-led UPA authorities up to now.

Addressing one other election assembly, Rahul Gandhi mentioned his Rahul Gandhi mentioned his relationship with Amethi shouldn’t be political however a private one. “Whatever the people of Amethi would want me to do, I am ready for it,” he mentioned.

The Congress chief mentioned Prime Minister Modi says that nothing has been completed within the nation up to now 70 years.

“But who had setup up the IIT, BHEL, HAL and the network of national highways,” he requested, alleging that like Air India, BHEL and HAL shall be “sold”.

“I wanted to bring a food park, Hindustan paper mill here. Now, you tell me what Amethi has got in the past five years,” he requested. “The Congress is the party of people. People should remember that UP has to be changed without which the country cannot be changed,” he added.

The Amethi Lok Sabha constituency had been represented by Rajiv Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi up to now.

Rahul Gandhi gained from right here in 2009 and was elected to the Lok Sabha from right here in 2014. However, he misplaced to Union minister Smriti Irani within the 2019 normal election. The joint rally by the brother-sister duo got here a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a rally right here.

Rahul Gandhi addressed the second election assembly alone as Priyanka Gandhi had gone to a different election assembly in Rampur Khas. Five Assembly seats within the Amethi Lok Sabha constituency will go to vote within the fifth part of the UP Assembly polls on February 27. The Congress was worn out within the 2017 state polls in Amethi.