Indian National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi flayed the BJP government for finishing the state and failing to generate employment which is forcing youth to immigrate, as he hit poll campaign trail in election-bound Haryana, while promising to conduct caste census and redress grievances of farmers.
Addressing a rally in Assandh in Karnal where Sirsa MP and former Union minister Kumari Selja, who has been missing from campaigning so far, shared the dais with senior party leaders, including two-time Chief Minister Bhupinder Hooda, Gandhi asked: "Why are the youth of Haryana going to the US?"
Relating an experience of his recent visit to America, he said: "When I visited Dallas in the US, I saw 15-20 people sleeping in one room. A youth told me that most of them took loans or sold their land to pay around Rs 30-50 lakh to come to the US.".
When I told them that they could make the same amount of money to start a business in Haryana, they said it was impossible to do so in the state. When I was visiting Karnal, I saw a child screaming at a computer asking his father to return from the US during video calling. The Haryana government has finishes the state and its youth.
Convinced that his party would sweep the polls as Haryana will fight unitedly, Gandhi said: "Our government will be for everyone."
The Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha said a caste census aims at providing nearly 90 per cent of the country's population their "rightful due".
"If this much of the population does not get its due, the Constitution can not be preserved or protected," he said, adding that 90 per cent of the country's population remains "marginalised with little to no representation in the corporate world."
Gandhi said such a census would form a key policy framework for Congress.
Before the rally, the BJP attacked the Congress leader for campaigning in Assandh from where Shamsher Singh Gogi is in the fray, accusing Gogi of having openly declared that he will "fill his coffers" and those of people close to him, if the Congress formed the government in Haryana.
"Rahul Gandhi is beginning his rally in Haryana for a Congress candidate who, two days back, openly declared that he will loot Haryana. Rahul Gandhi is coming to campaign for the candidate who has declared that if the Congress government comes to power, he will first fill his own coffers and then the coffers of his people," said the BJP in a post on X.
Vote will take place on October 5 and the counting of ballots on October 8 in Haryana.
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