Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday described Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) as “Modi Voting Machine” (MVM), and asserted the youth of Bihar is “angry” this time and will vote out the NDA Government “whether its EVM or MVM”.
Raking up the EVM issue for the first time in this election, he said, “The name is not EVM (Electronic Voting Machine. The name is MVM i.e Modi Voting Machine. E is written just like that. But there is anger among the youth of Bihar this time around. So whether its EVM or MVM, the mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance) is going to win,” he said.
Wrapping up his campaign for the ongoing election in Bihar, he addressed two rallies during the day, and slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over the migrant issue, handling of the coronavirus crisis, unemployment and the new agricultural laws.
In his first rally at Madhepura’s Bihariganj, from where veteran socialist leader Sharad Yadav’s daughter Subhashini Yadav is contesting the poll on a Congress seat, Rahul said the CM had promised he would provide jobs and “change” Bihar, but he “could not deliver”.
“When youths today ask Kumar during his public meetings about the jobs he had promised, he threatens them, chases them away and gets them thrashed,” Rahul alleged.
“He (Nitish) tells them he doesnt need their votes. Fine then. The youth of Bihar will not vote for you,” he said.
He said he was not scared “whether its MVM or Modiji ka Media (Modi jis media)”. “Truth is truth, justice is justice. I am fighting a war of ideology against this man. We are fighting against their thoughts. We will defeat their thoughts,” he said.
“I wont budge an inch until I defeat Narendra Modi,” he said.
He also raised the issue of Minimum Support Price for maize and paddy and said the money that the farmers should be getting is actually going to the middleman.
He alleged that the PM, through the three recently passed agricultural laws, has “cleared the way for new middlemen. Not the smaller ones but the bigger ones -- Ambani and Adani”.
“You would never have seen the Prime Minister holding the hand of a poor farmer, but must have seen him embracing Ambani and Adani,” he alleged.