They were taken to the Parliament Street police station and released within 20 minutes. “I want to tell the Modi government that Congress is India’s soul”, he said at the “Save Democracy” rally at Jantar Mantar here.
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She said that the Congress would not allow democracy to be “destroyed, whatever might be the diabolic designs” of the government. The Congress president accused the government of trying “frighten or defame” them.
Making light of “Make in India” programme, he said that Modi had promised two crore jobs per year after coming to power, but actually a mere 1.3 lakh jobs were generated last year. The Congress says that the documents which are notes and letters exchanged by middlemen show nothing other than listing influential leaders which, it says, would naturally be from the Congress because it was in the government at the time.
“We believe that something wrong happened, my dispute is not that”, the Congress leader said asking the government whether it was not damaging investigation and letting culprits escape, by targetting its rivals.
Talking about the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Centre launching a spur of baseless attacks on members of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Kejriwal said that government, instead of focusing on Sonia Gandhi, had trained its gun on Somnath Bharti who was undergoing marital problems. “No matter what you accuse us of, we will not bow before injustice”.
“We are relying on the interpretations and misrepresentations of an Italian court”, he said adding the official translation of the judgement is still not available. We are used to waging struggle and we have faced many challenges in the past.
Manmohan Singh and Rahul Gandhi also spoke in the same vein as they hit out at the Modi government and declared that it would not succeed in its attempts to deliver a “Congress-mukt Bharat”.
Alleging that the UPA government committed scams in sky (AgustaWestland), land (Adarsh), sea (submarine) and underground (coal), he sought to know why two key people, former governors M K Narayanan and B V Wanchoo were not questioned in the VVIP chopper scam.
“Today those who do not agree with them are harassed”, she said, addressing the rally, and warned “Inke din ab poore hogaye hai” (Their days are over now). But these people should understand one thing: “the day things become intolerable, the people of India can teach lessons to anybody, however mighty”.
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He said: “Anyone who dares to speak against them (Modi and Bhagwat) are charged with false allegations”.
