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We Will Defeat BJP’s Ideology, Says Rahul Gandhi

Congress President Sonia Gandhi has given the Congress convention a miss, amid rumours of her ill-health.

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  • Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi inaugurates the Jan Vedna Sammelan in Delhi’s Talkatora Stadium on Wednesday
  • He alleges that the note ban was PM Modi’s personal decision
  • ‘Achhe Din’ will come only when the Congress returns to power, Gandhi says
  • Congress leader P Chidambaram alleges that ministers were kept as prisoners till the note ban announcement
  • Slamming the note ban, former prime minister Manmohan Singh says the worst is yet to come
  • Rahul Gandhi said that BJP is instilling fear in Indians
  • He called the Congress’ ideology one of eradicating fear
  • Gandhi concluded by saying Congress will defeat BJP’s ideology
6:10 PM , 11 Jan

"We Will Defeat Their Ideology"

Taking another dig at Modi, Rahul says that like actor Amitabh Bachchan, the PM delivered a dialogue that went, “Mitron, we will fighting against corruption starting today. Give me your present and I'll give you a shining India in the next 10-15 years”

“He will take the money of the poor and help the rich get richer,” he says. The BJP and the RSS are ruining the future of the nation, he tells a cheering crowd.

But the Congress will defeat and remove them. We will defeat their ideology.
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5:54 PM , 11 Jan

"BJP's Surgical Strike on the Poor"

The party vice-president speaks of Modi’s dream of a cashless economy and the large number of people still queuing outside banks and who have faced the brunt of demonetisation.

Have you seen any corrupt person stand in long lines outside ATMs or banks at 3 or 4 am? Almost 99 percent of the population had a Rs 24,000 cash withdrawal limit. But Janardhana Reddy hosted a Rs 500 crore wedding. Even Nitin Gadkari organised a wedding during the cash crunch.

Non-performing assets totalling around Rs 8 lakh crore were written off by the Modi government in the last two years, he claims, which then led to the Centre launching a “surgical strike” on the middle class, the poor and farmers.

He vows that the Congress will never take a step that would cause such hardship to citizens nor would it take away anyone’s rights.

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5:26 PM , 11 Jan

"Wherever We Go, We Try To Wipe Out Fear"

Targeting Modi government’s initiatives for the country’s farmers, Rahul says that the farmers were told not be be afraid and were promised that their land would not be taken away. They were also promised fair market rates for their land, he says.

But Modi has scared them all. The tribals who have rights to their land, water and forests are shot down. Wherever the BJP goes, they instil fear. But wherever we go, we try to wipe it out.

Speaking about the surgical strikes carried out by the Indian Army after the terror attack on the Uri Army camp in Jammu and Kashmir, he says that a minister had said, “Today, the army is working like the Israeli army.” He asks if, before the strikes were carried out, “was the Indian army inferior to the Israeli army?”

I say it’s better than the Israeli army and always has been.
5:02 PM , 11 Jan

BJP Instilled Fear Among the People of India, Says Rahul Gandhi

At the convention, Rahul Gandhi says of the Congress’ party and its symbol”

One day, while looking at Shiva’s picture, I saw the Congress’ symbol. I looked at Guru Nanak’s photo and again the Congress symbol was visible. The same goes for Mahavir, Hazrat Ali and Buddha’s pictures. I asked (Congress leader) Karan Singh what it meant and he responded with ‘Daro mat, sachhayi ka saamna karo' (Don’t be afraid, face the truth).

The philosophy of the Congress party, too, he says is ‘daro mat’. Attacking the BJP, he says it believes in ‘daro aur darao' (be afraid and frighten others).

They’ve instilled fear within the people of this country within the last 2-3 months.

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Published: 11 Jan 2017, 11:31 AM IST
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