Union Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani rejected the charges leveled by Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi against the Narendra Modi Government. “Achievements cannot be measured on a scale. The Congress and Rahul Gandhi did nothing for the country and region in past many years,’’ Irani said while speaking to mediapersons in Amethi on Tuesday. launching an indirect attack on the Nehru-Gandhi family at a meeting in Salon town in Rae Bareli, Irani said after years of promises this time development work will start.
“The grandparents said it and now he (Rahul) is making promises. They all had been making promises, but the people here are yet to have facility of a railway line,” Irani said. The Union Minister, who contested against Rahul in Amethi in the last lok Sabha election, deposited the first premimum amount for 25,000 families in the district under Prime Minister Jan Dhan scheme. She also said that 25,000 women, including Anganwadi workers, would be associated with the scheme before Diwali.
Irani also refuted that the land Acquisition Bill had been a source of embarrassment for the Government. “Farmers know the real fact of the amendment in the land Acquisition Act. We have taken appropriate steps to safeguard the interest of the farmers,” she said. Earlier, after reaching lucknow, the Union Minister had said during her last visit on May 2 farmers told her about the fertiliser problem and now the first rake of fertilisers of 25,000 bags had reached Amethi on Monday, the requirement which was fulfilled within 10 days, even as Congress failed to do so during its 10-year-rule.