Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Friday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi not to make excuses over his non-performance and said that his party would not let him run a Government which acts only in the interests of three or four industrialists.
“The job of the Prime Minister is to run Government, job of the Prime Minister is not to make excuses,” Rahul said interacting with the media. Rahul was responding to a question on Modi’s accusation on Gandhi family for disruptions in Parliament.
The Congress V-P’s remarks came when his reaction was sought over Modi pinning the blame on the Gandhi family for disruptions in Parliament and the charge that they are taking revenge for defeat in lok Sabha polls. The Government while announcing the Budget Session on Thursday had indicated yet another round of disruptions from the Opposition on several issues.
Taking a swipe at Modi, Rahul remarked, “All the Prime Minister has been doing for the last 18 months is to make excuses as to why the economy is not running, why the farmers are not getting their due, why the labourers are not getting what they should get”.
“India did not choose Narendra Modi to make excuses. India chose a leader and the leader should not make excuses, the leader should do the job that he has been elected to do,” he said.
Rahul, who has been alleging Modi for crony capitalism and that he has been helping a select industrialists, said that so far Congress has been talking about how the Modi government does not work for the poor, workers and the farmers but now it is “puzzling that even industrialists are crying before us”.
“Big industralists are coming to us and telling that Modiji may be running the Government for us, but he is not able to do our work. So Modiji will certainly give excuses”, he said. He said this Government “acts only in the interest of three or four of their crony capitalist friends”.
Earlier in the day, Rahul held a meeting with the State Presidents on the issue of implementation of MGNREGA which completed 10 years this month. “They spoke about how BJP CMs, Modiji and RSS are disturbing and bypassing programmes like MGNREGA and Forest Rights Act in different states”, he said, adding that the PCC chiefs also informed him of how the BJP was not taking forward policies and programmes that the Congress started for the poor.