After inviting controversy over his remarks on the issue of rejecting the Ordinance brought by the Government to save convicted lawmakers from immediate disqualification, Rahul Gandhi again embarrassed the party when he went on to accuse the Opposition for creating hurdles in way of clearing Bills on land Acquisition and Food Security.
He tried to capitalise on the issue during launch of his campaign for 2014 Parliament elections in the name of thanksgiving rally on the above two Bills in Aligarh and Rampur respectively.
leader of Opposition in the Parliament Sushma Swaraj was quick to react when he claimed that Rahul should know that his own party Minister Jairam Ramesh had thanked the entire Opposition for their support on clearing the land Acquisition Bill. She claimed that Opposition also supported the Food Security Bill even though it needs several modifications and alleged that Rahul is misguiding the public on those Bills.
With an eye on minority vote bank, Rahul Gandhi also made a veiled attack both on the SP and BJP, alleging that some political forces were behind the recent Muzaffarnagar communal riots as they feel they cannot win without creating such conflicts.
“People are made to fight for political gains. If Uttar Pradesh is going behind, it is because people are divided here. Hindus and Muslims are made to fight each other. One caste is made to fight another”, he stated adding that the common people don’t want to fight. “I met both Hindus and Muslims and they claimed that they wanted to remain unite and work for development of the country but there are some political forces who feel if there is no fight, they will not get votes”, pointed Rahul while giving reason behind Muzaffarnagar riots without naming any political party except for SP Government for it’s failure to control the situation. Rahul made the above claims while addressing in Aligarh and later in Rampur on Wednesday afternoon.
Exhorting people to unite for progress and development of the State, Congress vice-president said that till they collectively question the democratically elected Government for full five years on very issue till than they will not get their due. Attacking the State Government for expressing its inability to implement Food security scheme in the State, Gandhi exhorted the people to exert pressure for their rights.