PM Modi Is Scared, He May Even Shed Tears On Stage: Rahul Gandhi

On Friday, April 26, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi retaliated against Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his attack on the grand old party and said Modi is scared and may even shed tears on the stage.

Addressing a public gathering, Gandhi said, “You have heard the Prime Minister’s speeches. He is scared. It’s possible that he may shed tears on stage.”

PM Modi has hit out at the Congress on a variety of issues in recent campaign rallies, including “inheritance tax” charges, “mangalsutra” and “redistribution of wealth”.

The former Congress chief has levelled accusations against Modi of ‘diverting public attention’ through various means.

Gandhi said, “Modi tries to divert your attention. Sometimes he talks about China and Pakistan, and sometimes he will make you beat plates and ask you to switch on the torch light of your mobile phones.” He said that there were three-four core issues in India, including price rise, unemployment and poverty. He claimed that only the Congress can give people their due share, contain price rise and eradicate unemployment.

Gandhi alleged, “Modi has only snatched money from poor people. He has made some billionaires. There are 22 people who have wealth equivalent to the 70 crore people of the country. Just one per cent people are controlling 40 per cent of the wealth of the nation.”

In the present scheme of things, Gandhi said, there is “no scope” for OBCs, Dalits, tribals, minorities, poor and general category people. He added, “I will just tell you a clear thing in one simple line. The wealth Modi has given to those billionaires, the same money we are going to give to the poor people of the country.”

The Congress leader also made a promise to the youth that if his party is voted into power, it will scarp the ‘Agniveer’ scheme.

The former Congress president dubbed the ‘Agniveer’ scheme in the armed forces — offering three years’ service to the youth from 18 years to 21 years — as an insult to the Army and soldiers.

Gandhi said, “Narendra Modi snatched the Army jobs from the youth of India. He brought the Agniveer scheme, which is an insult to the Indian Army and soldiers. We will scrap it.”

He claimed that Modi imposed a faulty GST, where he introduced five different types of taxes, which are hefty. Gandhi alleged that the PM was doing injustice to the people of Karnataka and that the Congress will change the GST and rectify the injustice meted out to the people of the southern Indian state.

Gandhi further claimed that the ongoing Lok Sabha election was not ‘general’ in nature. He said, “It is not an election that used to happen earlier because for the first time in the history of India, a party and a person want to destroy the Constitution and democracy.”