Rahul says two Indias exist under Modi, one of farmers and labourers, other of country’s richest

TIL Desk/National/Panipat/ Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday slammed the BJP government over the economy and unemployment, saying there are two Indias under Prime Minister Narendra Modi – one of farmers, labourers and the jobless and the other of “100 people” who hold “half” of the nation’s wealth.

Addressing a rally in Haryana’s Panipat as part of the party’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, the former Congress president also targeted the BJP government at the Centre over the Goods and Services Tax (GST), the demonetisation exercise six years back and the armed forces’ new Agnipath recruitment scheme.

The Kanyakumari-to-Kashmir march reached Panipat district on Thursday evening, entering Haryana for the second time. The yatra resumed Friday morning. He called Haryana, which has a BJP-led government, “champion” in unemployment. “You have left everyone else behind,” Gandhi said when someone in the crowd claimed the state has an unemployment rate of 38 per cent. The rally was attended by party chief Mallikarjun Kharge, general secretary K C Venugopal, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Kumari Selja and Randeep Singh Surjewala.