Belagavi: Hitting again at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “remote control” jibe at him and the Congress, AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday requested as to the place was BJP chief J P Nadda’s distant management. Accusing the Modi-led BJP authorities of “troubling” social gathering chief Rahul Gandhi for “speaking the truth”, the Congress President stated he would not worry such issues and was prepared for all the pieces.
“Modi came to Belagavi and said – Kharge has become President (Congress), but the remote control is with someone else. Okay, my remote control is with someone else, but where is Nadda’s (BJP national President J P Nadda’s) remote control?” Kharge requested.
Addressing the ‘Yuva Kranti Samavesha’, a youth conference, organized by the social gathering’s state unit right here, he stated: “Nadda speaks under control of whose remote? There are lots of weak spots about you (BJP), for us (Congress) to speak about. You lack courage…” Claiming that Kharge, who hails from the state, was insulted and disrespected by the Congress in favor of a “family”, regardless of his seniority and age, PM Modi whereas addressing a public assembly right here on February 27 had stated, “This shows Kharge is Congress President just for the sake of it, and looking at the way he is treated, everyone can see and understand, as to whose hands the remote control is in.”
Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, General Secretaries Ok C Venugopal and Randeep Singh Surjewala, state unit chief D Ok Shivakumar, Legislature Party chief and Leader of Opposition Siddaramaiah amongst a number of leaders had been a part of the mega rally organised at CPED floor right here.
Noting that Rahul Gandhi questioned the federal government within the Lok Sabha on the Adani-Hindenburg difficulty, the Congress chief alleged that (elements of) his speech was faraway from information in Parliament. “Similarly, mine (Kharge’s) was removed from records in Rajya Sabha.”
“This is democracy… Is it wrong to say that democracy was not functioning properly in this country? To say there is still casteism in this country? You (BJP government) don’t allow us to speak the truth, while you keep lying,” he asserted.
“Your (BJP government’s) ED, CBI, or CVC cannot overpower us, we don’t fear them. Rahul Gandhi has never feared and will never fear. He speaks the truth, and such a person is being troubled. Let them do it, will they jail him? We are ready for everything,” he added.
Pointing out that throughout the course of the nationwide Bharat Jodo Yatra from Kanyakumari to Kashmir, Gandhi met farmers, youth, ladies, and each strata of the society, Kharge stated: “Forty-six days after the speech made by Rahul Gandhi in Jammu and Kashmir about the problems shared by the people, Delhi Police came to his door seeking for proof regarding his statement on alleged rape or sexual harassment on women, quoting her.”
Despite the Karnataka contractors’ affiliation giving proof for his or her 40 % fee cost within the state, no motion is being taken, Kharge claimed. “Modi and Shah (Amit Shah) should take action here and make an inquiry as the proof is already given here, then come to Rahul Gandhi.”
This was Kharge’s first go to to Belagavi after taking on because the Congress President. He identified that Belagavi was a “sacred land” for Congress, as Mahatma Gandhi was elected because the social gathering’s President within the district in 1924, and Jawaharlal Nehru was appointed because the General Secretary.
Kharge, searching for the blessings of the folks of the state for the upcoming meeting polls, requested the social gathering leaders and staff to struggle the polls with unity. He additionally accused the BJP authorities in Karnataka of rampant corruption and praised the KPCC’s ballot ‘ensures’ together with the unemployment allowance for the youth, which was introduced at present because the fourth ‘assure’, within the occasion of the social gathering coming to energy.
The social gathering has already introduced three polls ‘ensures’ 200 items of free energy to all households (Gruha Jyoti), Rs 2,000 month-to-month help to the lady head of each household (Gruha Lakshmi), and 10 kg of rice free to each member of a BPL family (Anna Bhagya).
