Congress MP Navjot Singh Sindhu on Thursday, May 2 addressed a rally in Amethi, Uttar Pradesh and criticised PM Narendra Modi for disregarding India’s achievements before 2014.
At the rally, the cricketer-turned-politician talked about the Congress’ proposed NYAY scheme, Modi’s false promises and the dire condition of the country’s public sector under the BJP government.
Here are some of the highlights of his speech:
- … I promise you, all poor, farmers, labourers, who can’t afford a day’s meal will get Rs 72,000 per year… This will happen as soon as Congress government comes into power.
- Both parties have waived loans. The BJP forgave Adani and Ambani’s Rs 3.5 lakh crore but the Congress waived Rs 72,000 crore farm loans.
- Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi say our God, our soul lies in the people.
- I challenge you Modi, don’t talk of temples or talk of mosques. The people are unemployed, first talk of feeding them, alleviating farmers, honouring women, cleaning the Ganga…
- Stomachs are empty and you show us how to do yoga… Pockets are empty and you keep opening up bank accounts… And the poor don’t have food to eat and you keep building toilets.
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- PM talks of Make in India… You brought Sardar Patel’s statue from China, you brought Rafale jets from France, bullet trains… will come from Japan, so what will you let Indians make, Modiji? Make them fry pakodas?
- Modi thinks before 2014 India did not exist, there was only a railway station and a tea stall. Modi must have dug up the whole of India singlehandedly.
- When you (Modi) were not born, Ambedkar sahib had already composed the Constitution.
- In 70 years Congress has made from needle to spacecraft and you (Modi) have built chor and chowkidar. When Gujarat riots were happening, metro trains were already running…
- By stealing from all public sector companies you (Modi) handed over the country’s treasures to Ambani.
- You are trying to send BSNL worth Rs 5,50,000 crore into Ambani’s hands. You gave 4G to Ambani but did not allow BSNL to deploy it even today.