DEMONETISATION WAS by no means about preventing black cash however an assault on those that run small and medium scale industries in addition to farmers, the results of that are being confronted by the poor even right now, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi stated in Nanded whereas addressing a gathering as a part of the occasion’s Bharat Jodo Yatra.
“It was at the present time six years in the past when Modiji got here on tv and introduced demonetisation and claimed that it was to struggle black cash. It was something however that. It was an assault on small and medium industries and farmers… the results of that are being confronted even right now by the poor,” he stated.
Taking up the federal government over the farm mortgage waiver challenge, Rahul stated that as a substitute of waiving farmers’ mortgage, the federal government is working for 3 corporates and waiving their loans. “I met a farmer right now, who stated that regardless of the federal government and farmers paying insurance coverage premium, the true beneficiaries are two to a few firms who’re getting the premium and farmers are getting nothing,” he added.
Slamming the politics of hatred, Rahul stated the style through which a household will undergo when two brothers struggle, the nation too can’t progress if two communities proceed to struggle. “They (ruling occasion) instigate fights between communities, languages and religions. How can the nation progress? And these folks name themselves patriots.”
Rahul’s 150-day-long yatra, which began in Tamil Nadu’s Kanyakumari on September 7, on Monday night entered Maharashtra, the place he’ll cowl 381 km in 14 days.
Whereas leaders of ally NCP will be part of the yatra on November 10 at a public assembly in Nanded, Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) chief Aaditya Thackeray is more likely to be part of Rahul on November 11.
On Tuesday morning, Rahul resumed his foot march from a gurdwara at Degloor and halted at Bhopala village in Biloli tehsil, masking round 16 km.
Former Maharashtra chief ministers of Prithviraj Chavan and Sushil Kumar Shinde walked with Rahul on Tuesday. Through the yatra, he interacted with a number of farmers, college students, kids and ladies and had his tea at a villager’s home in Bizuri within the night. The yatra will resume from Naigaon on its 63rd day on Wednesday and proceed in direction of Vajirgaon Phata. Thus far, the yatra has lined 1,682 km.