Amethi--Alleging that the NDA government was being run by “selected industrialist friends” of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Monday claimed that while the PM went to different countries, he has not visited any farmer in India in the last one year.
“Modiji went to China, Mongolia, US, Canada and other countries. But in the last one year of his government assuming power, he has not visited the house of one farmer in India, who is facing crop loss,” Rahul told farmers in Amethi’s Inhauna area while starting his three-day tour of his constituency.
Rahul also undertook a 2-km padyatra to the proposed site — in Jagdishpur industrial area — for a food park that was recently cancelled by the Modi government. Addressing farmers from an SUV there, Rahul alleged: “They want to take revenge on me. They want to hurt me but in the process, they have hurt farmers, which has made me sad.”
At Haswa village, he told farmers how his dream to build a food park for farmers of Amethi, Rae Bareli and adjoining districts has been shattered by the Modi government. “I wanted to help you get rid of middlemen and directly sell your produce. The food park would have changed your lives, but BJP, NDA and the Modi government turned it down because of revenge politics.”
Indian Express
