Speaking to ANI, BJP leader and Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman stated that it was because of the Prime Minister’s visit to foreign countries that India was able to get 55 billion dollars as Foreign Direct Investment (FDI).
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At the inaugural Khaat Sabha on Tuesday, moments after Rahul left after having made a raft of promises like farm loan waiver, reduction of power tariff and higher minimum support price for agricultural produce, the venue plunged into utter chaos with men, women and children scampering in, lifting the charpoys and hurrying towards their homes.
“The Congress vice president seems to be talking a lot about the Prime Minister’s foreign visits”. But he is the PM and we can’t stop him.
Earlier in the day, Gandhi also met Japanese encephalitis patients and took out a road show in Gorakhpur and used both the occasions to hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi. “Our farmers who are dying, are being oppressed and suppressed, you should help them too.Don’t forget the farmer, because the farmer is crying, big industrialists are not”, he told farmers in Khalilabad as also Gorakhpur. “Don’t forget the farmer, because the farmer is crying, big industrialists are not”, he said.
On the state of affairs in Uttar Pradesh, he said that farmers were only getting bills but no electricity.
“Modiji’s suit was sold for several crores of rupees but he does not have time to waive off loan of farmers”, he said. “BJP and media label poor farmers as thieves when they take away cots”, said Gandhi while addressing farmers during the “khat sabha” in Gorakhpur’s Sant Kabir Nagar. There is no burden on big industrialists, but the farmer is carrying the burden of the entire country on his shoulders.
“But we will raise their voice through agitation”, he said.
“I have started Kisan yatra to highlight farmers’ problems. But we want him to think about farmers”, he said. “We will travel from here to Delhi and talk to farmers, listen to their problems and understand them and take them to Modiji”, Gandhi said. The Gandhi scion is on Uttar Pradesh election campaign wherein he will visit Faizabad parliamentary constituency wherein apart from visiting the temple which is dedicated to Lord Hanuman, Congress Vice President will do a 4.2 km long road show, door-to-door campaign wherein he will collect Kisan Maangpatras and meetings too.
He alleged the government was not allocating adequate funds for the implementation of MGNREGA.
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“Our only target is to put pressure on the Prime Minister and the NDA/BJP government and we want loans to be waived, just as we waived Rs 70,000 crore (during our tenure)”.
