Prime Minister Narendra Modi got here below fireplace on Thursday from Congress chief Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who made an emotional speech by which she mentioned bringing components of her father’s physique residence and claimed former PM Rajiv Gandhi’s mom gave him “martyrdom” relatively than wealth. The Congress normal secretary additionally acknowledged that Modi won’t perceive her household’s sacrifices. “Modi ji will not understand that my father did not inherit wealth, he inherited martyrdom from his mother,” she mentioned, criticising the prime minister for his relentless assaults on the Congress over the social gathering’s “wealth redistribution” promise in its manifesto.
Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi’s mom and former prime minister, was killed by her two Sikh bodyguards on October 31, 1984, at her Delhi residence. With a voice choked with emotion, Priyanka mentioned, “When Modiji utters nonsense about a woman like Indiraji, when Modiji, after seeing this feeling of patriotism, only sees dynastic politics, he cannot understand this sacrifice.” She was talking at a Madhya Pradesh election rally in Morena.
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During a rally in Morena final week, PM Modi had claimed that Rajiv Gandhi had eliminated the inheritance tax after he got here to energy to be able to keep away from paying taxes on the wealth he had inherited from his mom. He had beforehand acknowledged that the federal government was legally entitled to half of a deceased particular person’s wealth.
“At the time, there was speculation that Indiraji had left her fortune to her son Rajiv Gandhi. To save money for the government (after her death), PM Rajiv Gandhi abolished the inheritance tax,” the prime minister acknowledged. Congress had stoutly refuted Modi’s declare.
“But now I perceive that the sort of rage is directed at somebody you care deeply about. How can I clarify my love for this nation when Modiji calls my father a traitor? When Modiji claims that my father modified the legislation to obtain inheritance from his mom, Priyanka added. Priyanka additionally touched upon the barrage of assaults confronted by the Gandhi household from BJP leaders.
“I want to say that whether you call us traitors, whether you kick us out of our homes, tie us up in legal cases… Do what you want. Kill us. Nobody can take away our sense of patriotism.” The Congress chief additionally recalled Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination in 1991.
“I used to be 19 years previous after I introduced my father’s stays residence, and I used to be offended with my nation. I used to be offended as a result of I had despatched my father away, and it was your accountability to maintain him protected. You returned him to me in items.
“And these pieces were bundled in the national flag. I understand the meaning of martyrdom. “I’m 52 years previous right now, and that is the primary time I’m talking about it publicly,” Priyanka said. On May 21, 1991, a female suicide bomber killed Rajiv Gandhi during a poll rally in Sriperumbudur.
Priyanka also mentioned her meeting with the families of the victims of the Pulwama terror attack to emphasise the sense of sacrifice.
“Many of the Pulwama martyrs have been from Uttar Pradesh. I visited their properties and met their households and kids. The youngsters additionally expressed a want to hitch the military. One woman whose father was a pilot mentioned she needs to hitch the air pressure and develop into a pilot.”
On February 14, 2019, a suicide bomber carried out a terrorist assault in Pulwama, Jammu and Kashmir, killing 40 CRPF personnel. On different points, Priyanka challenged Modi to construct shelters for stray cattle in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.
“PM Narendra Modi has said today, beware, if you have two buffaloes, the Congress will steal one of them,” she mentioned, referring to Modi’s declare that the opposition social gathering meant to reintroduce inheritance tax and seize individuals’s property.
“I throw a challenge to Modiji; collect stray cattle in UP and MP, and put them in ‘gaushala’ (cow shelters),” the chief of the opposition social gathering mentioned.
“Solve the problem of stray cattle. Build cowsheds, strengthen them, like the previous Congress government in Chhattisgarh did.” Gaushalas in Chhattisgarh supplied earnings for ladies, and the federal government bought cow dung from them, in keeping with Priyanka.
The nation’s unemployment fee was at a 45-year excessive, and authorities recruitment exams have been hampered by paper leaks, whereas the Modi authorities was additionally closing out there job alternatives, in keeping with the Congress chief. She claimed that the Modi authorities waived loans totaling Rs 16 lakh crore to twenty to 22 businessmen.
“Under the Modi government, the poor have become poorer in the last ten years,” she mentioned.
