Union Human Resource Development Minister, Smriti Irani, rejected the alleged charges leveled by Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi against the Narendra Modi government. “Achievements cannot be measured on a scale. Congress and Rahul Gandhi did nothing for the country and region in past many years,’’ Irani said while speaking to media persons in Amethi during her day-long visit, on Tuesday. launching an indirect attack on the Nehru-Gandhi family, including Rahul Gandhi, at a meeting in Salon town in Rae Bareli, Irani said after years of promises this time development work will start soon. “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 railway line. This time the work will start soon,” 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 PM 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 fertilizers 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. Irani would address four public meetings and will launch the Prime Minister’s insurance scheme to benefit 25,000 farmers, before returning to New Delhi.