Taking a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led centre for destroying several institutions of democracy, ignoring farm and youth unrest, the Congress President Rahul Gandhi reiterated that ‘BJP knows it will lose the 2019 election’.
Addressing at a function held in the tri-city of Chandigarh-Panchkula-Mohali to release a commemorative volume on Mahatma Gandhi published by Navjeevan, a sister publication of the National Herald Group, Rahul Gandhi declared that Media has been reduced by the Modi Government to paper tigers.
Rahul Gandhi said, “On the front pages of newspapers you can read reports on weddings, sports and cricket.” “But you will rarely find reports on farm distress, problems assailing the youth or corruption,” he added. This, he said, was because media ownership has passed into the hands of crony capitalists close to the Government.
Lauding the efforts of the editorial team of Navjeevan, the Gandhi scion said that the newspaper was free to criticise the Congress. “We are not like the BJP or the RSS that we would take umbrage at healthy criticism. If we make mistakes, do report on what is the mistake and we will correct it,” he noted.
Accusing the Modi Government of putting pressure on the media, Rahul Gandhi alleged that all the pillars of democracy were under attack. “But people will give a befitting reply,” he asserted. Expressing full confidence that Congress would defeat BJP in elections, Rahul Gandhi declared that the party and the Government would have to go beyond elections and find a solution to the growing problems of unemployment and unremunerative farm prices.
“There is growing anger in the country because of the Modi Government’s failure to address unemployment,” he said. Describing growing unemployment as the most serious challenge before the country, the Congress president lambasted PM Modi and claimed that nothing had been done in this country before he became Prime Minister in 2014.
Claiming that the Modi Government is on its last leg, the Congress President asserted that BJP knows that it would be losing the general election in 2019. “Navjeevan would have to become the voice of the people,” he concluded.
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