Congress leader Rahul Gandhi targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a rally here on Friday saying India is facing the worst unemployment rate and demonetisation has ruined the people.
Gandhi targeted media saying that it is showing the speeches of Modi but it is not raising the issue of unemployment, farmer’s plight and inflation. Media is compelled to do so as reporters don’t want to lose their job by raising actual issues, he alleged.
He said Congress president Sonia Gandhi has sent him to meet them.
“India is facing worst unemployment rate. Demonetisation has ruined the people,” he adds.
Five-six businessmen are owners of big media houses and they are diverting the people’s attention from real issues, he said.
Modi government has waived off corporate tax and loan of thousands of crores of several big businessmen but media didn’t write a single line.
Gandhi said former PM Manmohan Singh toiled hard to raise the economy rate but Modi ruined it during the past five years.
“Modi doesn’t have any knowledge about economy. There is a simple formula to raise the economy rate. The government has to put money in the pocket of unemployment youths to improve the economy,” he said.
MNREGA played a crucial role in improving the Indian economy during the Congress regime but the Modi govt is castigating it, he added.
Modi took out money from the pocket of farmers and other sections of the society and has given the money to 14-15 big businessmen, Gandhi said.