Rahul Gandhi attacks Narendra Modi's 'suit boot ki sarkar' in Bihar rally

Ramnagar Kicking off the Congress campaign in pollbound Bihar Rahul Gandhi on Saturday raked up the suit boot ki sarkar jibe to target the Modi government warning people that they would lose their land and livelihood if NDA came to powerAddressing a rally in this West Champaran region where Mahatama Gandhi had waged a battle to free farmers from indigo farming forced by Britishers the Congress Vice President suggested that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the antithesis of the MahatmaRahul Gandhi addressing a rally in West Champaran Bihar PicANIWhile the Mahatma shed his suit and donned a dhoti as he led the poor farmers Modi who claimed to have started as a chaiwala tea seller started wearing Rs 15 lakh suit after becoming Prime Minister Gandhi said painting Modi and the BJPled NDA as a club of the richOn the one hand there is Gandhiji who worked amid the poor and the labourers shed his suit and on the other there is Modiji who meets only people who wear suit boot and not the poor and the oppressed He says that I and my friends wearing suitboot will change India Give two crore new jobs every year provide 100 per cent enhanced minimum support price to farmers for their produce and would deposit Rs 15 lakh in everyones account by getting back black money stashed abroad Tell me whether any of these things happened Gandhi asked amid cries of No no from the audience A day before the Congress is organising a megakisan samman rally in the national capital Gandhi warned people of the backward agrarian state that Modiji and his friends wearing suitboot want to usurp your land They say you give your land and they will give development and jobs to the youth of Bihar Your land will be taken away and you will not get any employment We have formed this alliance because we want to protect poor weak and the oppressed We want to save you from Modiji and his friendsGandhi said that if the BJP government came to power here twothree people from Gujarat and Delhi wearing expensive suits will come and claim the land asking for removal farmers from there Gandhi also alluded to the recent controversy in the BJPruled Mahrashtra over making Marathi language mandatory for getting license to ply autoWhen you go to other states for jobs like Maharasthra then you will be told that you will not get that because you do not know their language he saidAttacking Modi on the issue of corruption he cited the Lalit Modi controversy Vyapam scam and PDS scam in BJPruled Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh respectively Modi used to say neither he will engage in corruption nor will he allow anybody to do so naa khaoonga naa khaane doonga He kept on saying it when External Minister Sushma Swaraj was helping Lalit Modi when the entire education system was sold out in MP and Vyapam scam happened PDS scam took place in ChhattisgarhWe were providing free medicines in Rajasthan when there was a Congress government there Vasundhara Rajes government stopped this You all know how much money one has to pay in private hospitals for treatment he saidProjecting the grand secular alliance as propoor and profarmer the Congress Vice President said if the alliance formed the government the voice of the weak and poor will be heard and youth will be given Rs 4 lakh loan for educationFormer Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar was also present on the dais from which Gandhi talked about the contribution of B R Ambedkar and Jagjivan Ram for the cause of dalits It was not only Gandhiji who fought for the poor B R Ambedkar Jagjivan Ram Sardar Patel and Jawaharlal Nehru also fought for them Congress party works for them he said seeking to contrast it with the functioning of the RSS and the BJPRSS and BJP think in a different manner They believe that the poor and the weaker sections have no knowledge They do not come to you and do no mix up with you They want to keep their suits clean he said citing the example of BJPruled Rajasthan where a person below 10th pass cannot contest local bodies elections We want to shed the suit boot embrace the dhoti This is our thinking Gandhi said reminding the gathering that there is no suit boot flaunting person in the audience I had raised the matter of suit boot government inParliament also and told them that theirs is not a government of the poor he saidAccusing RSS and BJP of playing the communal card during polls he saidwhenever RSSBJP see elections nearing they start putting one community against the other They had done so in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar during last Lok Sabha polls They will do it again and advised people not to fall for it