Rahul Gandhi attacks Narendra Modi over lack of jobs, demonetisation

Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday made a strong attack on the Narendra Modi government by referring to incidents of lynching and attacks on Dalits saying people in India were angry and the ruling alliance was weakening support structures meant for the weaker sectionsSpeaking at the Bucerius Summer School here in Germany Gandhi also attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi over attacks on women lack of jobs demonetisation and flawed implementation of the Goods and Services Tax and said corporates were being favoured over the rights of the marginalised communitiesGandhi who later took questions from the audience also referred to his hugging the prime minister during the debate in parliament on the noconfidence motion saying certain hateful remarks made against him by Modi prompted him to do so but he Modi didnt like and was upset by itGandhi is in Germany as part of reach out to the NRI community ahead of next years Lok Sabha elections He will also go to the United KingdomThe Congress leader accused Modi government of not being keen on benefiting all sections from transformation taking place due to urbanisationThey do not feel that every single person in India should have access to fruits of transformation They feel that tribal communities poor farmers Dalit should not get the same benefits as the elite of the country gets We feel everybody took the risk everybody should get the reward Gandhi saidThe other thing they have done is they have started attacking the support structures that were designed to help certain groups of people he addedGandhi said welfare measures of UPA government such as the right to food and the right to guaranteed employment had been weakened and money going into these schemes is going into the hands of very few people the largest corporates in the countryGandhi alleged that demonetisation carried out by Modi had taken away lakhs of jobs as it had destroyed cash flow of small and medium businessesChina produces 50000 jobs every 24 hours India only 450 Gandhi said adding that bad implementation of GST had let to closure of thousands of businessesThese things are what has made people in India angry That is what you get to read in the newspaper When you hear about lynchings in India when you hear about attacks on Dalits in India when you hear about attacks on minorities in India that is the reason for it Gandhi saidHe said the transition that is shaping the world requires certain protection for people That protection is being taken away and India is reacting to that It is very dangerous in 21st century to exclude people If you do not give people a vision in the 21st century somebody else will which is not going to be good That is the real risk of excluding large number of people from our development processes he saidGandhi said hate is a dangerous thing in a connected world and it is a choice I can fight you take you on I can compete with you but hating you is something I have to actively chose to do Gandhi said his main complaint with Modi is that India has jobs problem but he does not say it and asked how it will be fixed if it is not even acknowledgedGandhi said level of violence is increasing in India and women were getting a huge share of it He called for a change in the attitude of Indian men at the way they treated women He said nonviolence in India was a foundational philosophy of Indias nationhood and noted violence can only be fought by nonviolenceReferring to assassinations of his grandmother Indira Gandhi and his father Rajiv Gandhi he said the only way to move forward after violence is forgiveness Answering a question on the US and China Gandhi said Indias role will be to balance like that of EuropeHe said Indias actions will be guided by selfinterest and noted that it is closer to the US than to China Referring to Modi coming to power in India and certain style of leaders coming to power in the US and some European countries he said the reason was failure of jobs particularly to nonwhite collar personsWe are outcompeted by Chinese That is creating a lot of anger he said He also said India was not in a race with China but was wanted to develop according to its valuesCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updatesThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever