New Delhi: Ahead of the civic polls in Delhi, Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal for running “individual-centric” governments and “causing losses” to the country and Delhi respectively.
Attacking Kejriwal, Gandhi dubbed him as the “king” who calls shots only in the AAP.
He promised that the “voices of the people of Delhi” will be heard in civic bodies when his Congress comes to power there. The civic boy polls are likely to be held in April.
Gandhi took on the two leaders over the issue of combating corruption and asked the Prime Minister to first end corruption in the three corporations being ruled by the BJP.
Targeting Modi over the recent killings of Indians and Indian-origin people in the US, the Congress vice president asked why the Prime Minister was silent on the issue.
Rahul alleged that Modi was “scared” to speak up to the superpower on the issue.
“Banaras (Varanasi) has made up its mind…Banaras has understood that Modi had lied to its people two-and-a-half years ago. No matter how many visits he makes to the city, the people of Banaras are going to defeat Narendra Modi and BJP in the assembly polls there. This is the truth,” Gandhi said.
The Congress leader charged Modi with not keeping the “promise made to youngsters” on generating two crore jobs a year.
“Modi talked about giving jobs…when we asked about it in Parliament, a BJP minister said only one lakh jobs created last year, while this year not a single job has been created…One person cannot change the entire country,” he said, taking a dig at Modi.
Similarly, Gandhi alleged Kejriwal thinks that he can “single-handedly” change Delhi.
“I want to ask what has Kejriwal government done for sanitation workers, street vendors? What has he done for contractual staff in the Delhi government? When slums were being bulldozed in Delhi, you saw me and (Delhi Congress chief Ajay) Maken there, and not Kejriwal,” Gandhi said.
