Congress leader Rahul Gandhi along with Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Friday (October 23) addressed the first joint rally `Badlav Sankalp` at Hisua in Nawada district ahead of the upcoming Assembly polls. Rahul Gandhi also took the opportunity to question Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 2 crores jobs that he promised in the last elections.
Check out the highlights of his speech:
- I met labourers amid Corona pandemic. They told me that had PM given them two days, lakhs of labourers would have easily returned home. They couldn't understand why did the PM not give them at least one day.
- Labourers of Bihar left for their native state & walked thousands of kilometres without food & water. Did PM help you? Did he say that he didn't think & ended up making a mistake? Did he offer buses, trucks, trains to go back home? No.
- Narendra Modi did not give you even a single day and announced a nationwide lockdown. He did not think for even a minute that how will the labourers of Bihar get the money? How will they get food & drinking water?
- Labourers of Bihar were working in different parts of the country for our development - be it Mumbai, Delhi or Punjab. Just like our jawans are standing in Ladakh, the labourers of Bihar were giving their blood & sweat to this nation.
- PM Narendra Modi had said that India will be free of Corona within 22 days. I had been saying since February that the poor, labourers & farmers of India will suffer massive losses due to Corona but I was ridiculed
- PM said we'll defeat Corona in 22 days. How? By clanging utensils and shining the light of mobile phones. You too thought if he asking let's do it. It has been 6-7 months, Corona is spreading. PM is not speaking a word