Congress vice-president attacked Bhartiya Janta Party and his ally partner Shiv Sena on their alleged double speak and claimed that Congress does work for all but one must admit - in Marketing, BJP is very much ahead of us, though they are far below in performance.
``When they address to you they show concern towards you all but the same leaders when go Maharastra, they hurled abuses on the people of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar and attacked you all just to push you away",cited Rahul
Gandhi while openly criticizing Shiv Sena and Bharatiya Janta Party. ``The people of Uttar Paresh met him in Mumbai and they started weeping before me that who will same them from the goons of BJP supported Shiv Sena’’, added Rahul while assuring that Congress Party led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government would not allow such thing happen and would ensure safety and security of everyone. Congress MP from Amethi, made the above attack on Saffron brigade while addressing a gathering here in Pratapgarh on Saturday afternoon.
Congress star campaigner claimed that there are two type of `thought’ going on in the nation, one on Congress which is committed for development and progress and wanted to forward to everyone, irrespective of his caste or religion and the other is the one (without taking BJP’s name) which divide the communities, fuel communal tension and had nothing to do with the development. Rahul Gandhi also attacked Narendra Modi without taking BJP’s prime ministerial candidate. "The opposition believes that one man can run our country. When their leader boasts about Gujarat’s development and takes the entire credit for it, he forgets that it is the people of Gujarat, its women, developed the state". "One person can never run a nation; it is run by the people; people have the strength. This has been the concept of the Congress party.
While we want to empower our people to the maximum, the BJP wants to grab people’s power and hand over it to one individual" he added.
Emphasizing that Congress believes in empowering the people, the Congress Vice President said, "You can see that our programmes reflect our ideology, whether it is employment guarantee scheme, Right to Information, land Acquisition Bill or the Food security Act. All our schemes and policies are aimed at empowering the people".
Referring the issue of corruption, Rahul Gandhi continued, "There are lots of discussions about corruption. The Gujarat cabinet has three convicted ministers, who were jailed on corruption charges. The BJP does not see corruption under its nose whether it is in Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh or Chhattisgarh. Yeddyurappa, former Chief Minister of Karnataka, who had sent to jail for corruption, is now back in BJP".
The young Congress leader then struck a chord with the women and continued, "I want to see a day when 50% representation in Parliament, assemblies as well as in the Congress party is women. Country can never develop if we do not empower our women. 50% of our population is women and if we want to make India a super power, this 50% must be adequately empowered. The bill for women reservation is still pending in Parliament. But the opposition is stopping its passage; they are scared of the power of women. They don’t want the women to run industries, universities, Parliament or Assemblies or become Prime Minister or Chief Minister. Congress wants to give power to the women - in education, in lok Sabha, in assemblies, politics, business and entrepreneurship". The rally was also addressed by sitting MP of Pratapgarh, Rani Ratna Singh.