Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi in a fierce attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleged that in a bid to help his industrialist friends he was weakening the ‘crying’ farmers of the country so that they become labourers and their lands could be acquired effortlessly.
Addressing a rally at Gudugur, in north Karnataka on Saturday Rahul alleged that Modi had no time for “crying” farmers and labourers and wanted to help three or four of his big business friends who are eyeing farmers’ land.
“The truth is Narendra Modi has three or four big industrialist friends, they want your land. They are aware that the land that today costs one or two lakh rupees, after eight or ten years will cost crores of rupees, and they in one or the other way want to acquire your land.” “Farmer is crying, labourer is crying, poor man is crying, but the Prime Minister is touring the world. His aircraft sometimes lands in America, sometimes in China, sometimes in England, it lands in different countries and Modiji comes out, holds meetings and comes back,” Rahul said.
“We may be 40 to 45 (MPs) in Parliament but Indian farmers and labourers are with us. These people are still not aware of the strength of our farmers,” he said.