The Congress on Tuesday threatened to launch a nationwide public campaign to expose the three years’ rule of the NDA Government. While party vice-president Rahul Gandhi said that the celebrations after three years in power is to show “broken promises” and “non-performance”, his party colleagues announced that it will take along all like-minded parties to expose the Modi Government. The campaign will continue for two years regularly.
Rahul pointed to farmers’ suicides and unemployment in the country and said the last three years were a “betrayal” of the mandate the Government had received. “Youth are struggling to find jobs, farmers are committing suicide and soldiers are dying at the border. What exactly is the Govt celebratingIJ” Rahul Gandhi tweeted.
“Three years of broken promises, non performance & betrayal of a mandate,” he said in another tweet. Rahul last week had attacked the government over job creation and had said it failed to deliver on its poll promise of creating one crore jobs a year.
To mark the completion of three years of the Modi Government, the Congress young brigade highlighted its “failures” on various counts including issues of dealing with the Pakistan and Kashmir policy, internal security, women safety and rising cases of rapes, atrocities on dalits, high petrol and diesel prices, besides generation of jobs.
AICC incharge of communications Randeep Surjewala said the party led by Rahul Gandhi would expose the “failures” of the Government before the public in every nook and corner of the country.
“To expose the falsehood of the BJP, the Congress party in the next 24 months will launch an extensive countrywide public campaign after bringing all such like-minded and those forces troubled by this Government,” Surjewala said at a Press conference joined by Jyotiraditya Scindia, Sachin Pilot, RPN Singh, Sushmita Dev and Divya Spandana.
A power-point presentation was also made during the Press conference that besides other things highlighted the “failures” of this government on bringing back black money, GST, Aadhaar, renaming of UPA schemes, Digital and Skill India and not addressing the problem of farm debt.
They also raised the issues of rising cases of intolerance in the country and of attempts being made to change the narrative rather than focusing on resolving public problems.
Scindia said when this Government came to power they kindled a lot of hope by selling the dream of bringing “achhe din” in the country, but in the last three years it “shattered people’s dreams”. “There is an environment of intolerance prevailing in the country. If anybody discusses it, they are termed as anti- national.
“This Government decides what the people should eat, learn and wear. It tries to push its policies based on a regimented ‘soch vichar’ (ideological approach),” he said.
Pilot said party would present a better model of governance before the people and will expose the BJP on its “failure to fulfil the lofty promises made before coming to power”. The Congress leaders also raised the issue of senior functionaries of the Government trying to help fugitives like Vijaya Mallya and lalit Modi escape the country.