Describing Uttar Pradesh as the land of her ancestors, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi on Saturday resolved not to leave the state regardless of the outcome of the assembly elections in the state. Accusing her party rivals of practicing caste and religion politics and especially the BJP following hollow nationalism, she said that she will remain in the state and fight for her people as long as the state is right. And the right change doesn’t come. Politics.
The Congress leader made the remarks while addressing an election rally in Ghazipur here in which polling will be held in the last phase of the UP assembly elections on March 7. “You (public) are being misled on the issue of caste and religion. You will face maximum loss with the political leaders losing hardly anything. They just want to come back to power by keeping people poor.”
“This is the land of my ancestors and their blood has nourished its soil. Until there is true and correct politics in the state, I will keep fighting. I have decided that whatever the outcome, I am not going to leave you.” Am. I will fight with you, for you.”
Taking a pledge to leave UP regardless of the election results, Priyanka Gandhi also accused some former Congress leaders, who later switched to other parties, including the BJP, of preventing her from staying in the state and working for it. .
“Three years ago when I came to UP as the in-charge of UP, some senior party leaders, who have now left the party, came to me and told me that I should leave UP as I would not get anything here. He told me that there is only struggle here. There is no Congress here. You talk to the party leadership and ask them to send you somewhere else,” said Priyanka Gandhi at an election rally.
“I later spoke to my brother Rahul Gandhi, who was the then Congress President. And, he said, Priyanka goes to Uttar Pradesh and works (‘struggle’) for it. You have to remember that wherever people are suffering, they are being tortured, you have to go there and fight for the people.
Gandhi also urged voters to vote for their party’s candidate in the ongoing assembly elections in the state. Intensifying his attack on the BJP, he said, “Their policy is that they will keep you poor. They brought demonetisation and GST and made you stand in queues in the name of nationalism.
Your business got ruined but black money did not come. Big industrialists flourished in the sudden lockdown but everything got ruined. He alleged that all the policies made for the farmers have only harmed them. Gandhi also attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing him of always being on tour to different countries of the world, but not giving time to farmers to agitate.
“The nationalist prime minister traveled the world but did not speak to the farmers. What kind of nationalism is this that you do not even listen to the plight of the farmers? What kind of nationalism is it that your minister’s son crushed the farmers and the minister was seen sharing the stage with you? What kind of nationalism is it that half the population has been given ration and gas cylinders, but there is no plan to educate and empower them? He asked.
“What kind of nationalism is this that you have duped the sons of farmers posted on the border of the country? This is hollow nationalism. This is the prevailing nationalism from the political platform. He alleged that all the organizations and institutions created by the Congress to provide employment (to the people) have been sold to their friends.
A government that cannot provide employment to the youth cannot call itself a nationalist.” Recalling the days of his father (former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi), the Congress general secretary said, “When my father was the Prime Minister, people used to do . Question them and demand redressal of their grievances. The BJP has reversed democracy, and the prime minister is only seen on the electoral platform.
Accusing the BJP of saying that people are inclined to vote for the BJP because they had consumed Modi’s salt, he said the lie was downplayed when questioned by the Congress. We intervened and then he changed his statement but the mindset is the same.”
Without naming him, Gandhi also accused Prime Minister Modi of entertaining the notion that he is irreplaceable. “Today’s leader feels that there is no one among the people to uproot him and hence he is misleading the people. Change this notion. Leaders are not gods. They are only human. And if a human being is given uncontrolled power, he thinks he has no responsibility and becomes uncontrollable.”
He tried to remind the people that the power with the government is given by the people on loan. “He forgets that this power is yours which you have given on loan. They will use your sentiments to come to power. Take power from them and change the future of Uttar Pradesh. Use the power of your vote to defeat these parties. Teach a lesson.”
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