Congress president Rahul Gandhi targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Make in India’ and called it a failure.
He said that all our products, whether clothes or shoes, are marked as ‘Made in China’ instead of ‘Made in India’. He also said that it’s his dream to have mobile phones which have ‘Made in India’ or ‘Made in Karnataka’ written on them.
Go to any shop and check for the manufacturing tag of any product, you will find the words ‘Made in China’. When you take a selfie on your iPhone, a person in China gets a job. My dream is that when you look at the back of your phone, you find a ‘Made in India’ and ‘Made in Karnataka’ tag in five to ten years from now.Rahul Gandhi, Congress President
Gandhi also targeted employment under modi’s reign. He said that on a daily basis, China creates 50,000 jobs for its people but our Prime Minister only manages to create employment for 450 people per day.
He accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of favouring the "super rich" and questioned why he had still not appointed a Lokpal to fight corruption.
Gandhi, who has been targeting Modi in all public rallies in poll-bound Karnataka, also quizzed Modi over his "silence" on issues such as the Punjab National Bank fraud.
Hitting out at the Prime Minister over issues such as employment generation and for not announcing loan waivers for farmers, Gandhi said:
Modiji...learn a bit from (Karnataka Chief Minister) Siddaramaiah. Whatever you do, you do it for people like Nirav Modi. You give thousands of crores to super rich people in the country; while in Karnataka we give seven kgs of rice free of cost to the poor.Rahul Gandhi, Congress Chief
Alleging that money power, marketing, television and the media were on the side of the BJP, Gandhi said that despite all these, the Congress would win the Assembly polls in Karnataka because the party has support from poor and weaker sections.
Whether they like it or not, Siddaramaiah and I, along with the Congress party, will work for weaker sections, the poor. We will take every one together for the progress of Karnataka.Rahul Gandhi, Congress Chief
State Assembly polls are expected to be held in April/May.
(With inputs from PTI)
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