On the third and final day of his visit to North Gujarat as part of Navsarjan Gujarat Yatra, Rahul Gandhi kept on criticising BJP-ruled Governments at Centre as well as the State over the issues of demonetisation, GST, unemployment and alleged disproportionate income of Amit Shah’s son Jay’s company.
Just like the past three phases of the Yatra in Saurashtra, South Gujarat and Central Gujarat, the scion of Nehru-Gandhi family visited temples to counter pro-Hindu image of rival BJP. During his speeches at different places he kept on reiterating Gabbar Singh Tax jibe for GST and how his party was against the higher slabs of taxes in the newly introduced GST.
At the pilgrimage town Becharaji near Mehsana he raised the issue of corruption in Gujarat. Terming the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home-State as the most corrupt among Indian States, he claimed that during the interaction, people literally pleaded him to save them from Modi in context to demonetisation and GST.
Amidst his busy poll campaign schedule, the 47-year-old leader took time to pay visit to the famous World Heritage site Rani-Ki-Vav, the step-well at North Gujarat town Patan.
With a view to strike chord with the common people, he stopped enroute Becharji and met farmers, labourers and also took selfies with them.
Taking dig at Prime Minister Modi over his redio programme Man-ki-Bat, Rahul reiterated that people want a Government which listen them. He also trained his guns over the higher fuel prizes at a time when globally prices have gone down.
At a function in Becharaji, Hardik Patel led Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) leader Narendra Patel who had joined BJP and later on opted to withdraw from the saffron party shard Dias with the Congress vice-president. Narendra Patel had also blamed BJP for offering him bribe to join the saffron brigade.