Opposition Leader in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi dismissed Prime Minister Narendra Modi as show all, stating that there is no "substance" in him. Addressing Talkatora Stadium in New Delhi, Rahul Gandhi said, "He is all a big show, he has been overplayed." Rahul Gandhi asserted that after sitting with PM Modi two to three times and sitting in the same room with him, he had concluded that the Prime Minister was never a "big problem." He then added, "Dum nahin hai" (He doesn't have guts).
Congress MP also attacked the Centre for what he termed underrepresentation of marginalised and deprived sections of society within India's bureaucracy.
"Dalits, backward classes, tribals, and minorities combined constitute almost 90 pc of the population of the country. And when the halwa was being served out after the budget had been formulated, no one from this 90 pc was present. It is this 90 pc population that constitutes the productive force of the country," he said.
They are the ones consuming it, while you are the ones preparing the halwa. We are not implying they cannot eat the halwa, but at least you should receive some too," he concluded.
Referring to information accessed by the Congress government in Telangana, Rahul Gandhi explained that members of the SC, ST and OBC communities "are not getting multi-lakh and multi-crore salary packages in Telangana" because they are not members of corporate organisations and their management.
"However, if we go through the lists of MGNREGA labourers or gig workers, they are all comprised of individuals from the SC, ST and OBC communities," he added.
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Addressing Congress's Bhagidari Nyay Sammelan', Rahul Gandhi acknowledged that he did not safeguard OBCs "like I should have" because he claimed he entered politics long ago in 2004 during UPA-1 regime. "My sadness is that had I understood your (OBC) history, your problems, a little more, I would have done a Caste Census at that point itself."
Defending that it was his and not the party's error, Rahul Gandhi indicated that he is "going to rectify it."
Rahul Gandhi also alleged on X today that the Narendra Modi government's vacation of reserved seats in central universities amounts to "a deliberate attempt to exclude marginalised communities from academia and policy-making" but not a "mere negligence."
Within hours of Rahul Gandhi's allegation against the Centre on underrepresentation of marginalised groups in central universities, Bharatiya Janata Party IT cell head Amit Malviya reacted that the "irony is rich and the hypocrisy, even richer."
Referring to Rahul Gandhi’s earlier criticism of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for “deliberately” marginalising SC, ST, and OBC communities by leaving a large number of reserved positions vacant in central universities, Malviya said, “This is what happens when the son of a Catholic mother and a Parsi father goes around asking everyone else’s caste!”
According to Malviya, Rahul Gandhi’s “divisive and disgraceful politics is unravelling faster than he would like and the mask is slipping.”
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