PM Modi’s ‘magic’ bullet train will never become a reality: Rahul Gandhi

Mangalore Today News Network

New Delhi, Jul 04, 2018 : Congress President Rahul Gandhi Wednesday stepped up his attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing him of playing in the hands of select industrialists at a time when the middle class, the poor and the small-time traders were facing distress due to government policies.

 

“Narendra Modi has broken the backbone of the traders and is playing in the hands of five-10 industrialists,” Gandhi said and claimed that Modi did nothing for the farmers and instead his government wrote off bad loans worth Rs 2 lakh crore in 15 elite businessmen favour.

On his two-day visit to Amethi, his parliamentary constituency, the Congress chief said that people were wondering as to what Modi, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) were doing, as the problems were piling up, leaving the people with very little leg space to grow.

“The Prime Minister has taken your money through the GST and demonetization and given it to the likes of fugitive businessmen Vijay Mallaya and Nirav Modi. Modi has spelt doom for the farmers,” he said.

The Congress president also termed Modi govt’s bullet train project a “magic train”, envisaged to run between Gujarat and Maharashtra, and insisted that it would never become a reality.

Targeting Modi over his foreign policies, Gandhi blamed PM Modi for poor international relations and said that while the Prime Minister hosted the Chinese President Xi Jinping in Gujarat, their armed forces encroached into Doklam.

Commenting on the issue of polarisation, Gandhi said while the RSS saw people through the prism of religion and caste, the Congress had feelings for every one as human beings.



courtesy:IE