PM Modi learnt the art of lying from the RSS: Rahul Gandhi

JHANSI/JALAUN: Congress vice president continued his diatribe against the BJP-RSS combine on Sunday, this time accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of having leant the art of lying in the RSS, of which he is a member. Undertaking the UP Kisan Yatra, which entered its 11th day as it moved from Jhansi to Jalaun, Rahul repeated the now popular, “Kisan trast, Modi ji mast” one-liner.Addressing a large audience at the khaat sabha in Jalaun, where the crowds cheered him continuously, Rahul also charged PM Modi will poor attendance in the Lok Sabha.
Responding to a request from farmer Mansoor Ali, who asked Rahul to intervene and to get farmers better returns for their produce, Rahul said, “Since Modi ji rarely comes to the Lok Sabha, I asked finance minister Jaitley ji about what happened to the government’s promise of 50% profits over minimum support prices. He gave a long-winded response, but couldn’t say why the government had not delivered.”
Using the BJP’s own catch word to attack them, Rahul referred to the many “jumlas” served by the BJP to the Indian voter in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. “When farmers met Dr Manmohan Singh, the Congress president and I, we took just 10 days to deliver a Rs 70,000 crore farm loan package. But your crops are failing and your input costs are soaring, but you have had no help,” Rahul said.
Alleging that the PM had publically lied to the country, Rahul said, “I am not in the habit of lying. The training Modi received in the RSS was not given to me. I don’t want it either. My ideology is the ideology of Gandhi ji. I do not make hollow electoral promises like Rs 15 lakh in every bank account. Even if it means that I lose an election, I will never do it.”
Making common cause with the farmers, Rahul also said the incumbent NDA government was working in the interest of 15 industrialists and to the exclusion of the entire farm community. “You got compensation and crop bonus under UPA. Both have been stopped. What have you got now?” Rahul asked to a rousing response from his audiences.
The 11th day of Rahul’s farmer rally began on a dull note in Jhansi, with fewer crowds turning out in in comparison to crowds the Kisan Yatra has generally been attracting. Rahul, however, persisted in his attack on the Modi government and the SP and BSP regimes in UP, each of who he said had shortchanged the people of the country, especially the farmers of UP.
Amid claps off appreciation from a ground-full of people in Konch, Jalaun, Rahul said, “When the elephant was in power, it ate continuously. Farmers’ land was acquired at will. I took up for farmer rights and for an amendment to the land acquisition bill. I was attacked, and Modiji tried to stop it three times. But we persisted. Today, farmers’ rights have been protected, and their compensation is ensured too.”
The Gandhi scion also repeated his jibe at the ongoing internal warring within the Samajwadi Party family. He said, “Mulayam ji ne Akhilesh ko beizzat kiya.” (Mulayam Singh Yadav has insulted chief minister Akhilesh Yadav) Referring to Akhilesh’s efforts to pedal forward on the Smaajwadi Party cycle, Rahul said various members of the family had taken control and disallowed the UP CM from moving forward. And, when he did take a decisive step, Mulayam stepped in to maintain the status quo.
On Sunday, Rahul also made his poll pitch to the people of UP. Peddling Delhi as the model of development Rahul emphasized that a Congress government stood for “all people”, especially the poor and the needy who needed state assistance the most. “You have tried the others. Choose Congress, now. In 5 years we can transform the state. The Uttar Pradesh of your dreams can be real,” he said.