Rahul Gandhi slams BJP govt in Rajasthan, says the state has a Lalit Modi Govt

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi addressed a gathering of Congress workers in Jaipur as part of his two-day visit to Rajasthan. He slammed the BJP govt in Rajasthan as well as the Narendra Modi-led govt at the Centre. “ Today the Rajasthan government's remote control is in London. They press the button and she jumps. This is a 'Lalit Modi sarkaar'.. Your Chief Minister has signed and said I want to help a fugitive but don't tell the people of India.. She broke the law of this country, helped a wanted a fugitive” said the Congress Vice President.

Rahul Gandhi slams PM Modi, says 56-Inch chest will shrink to 5.6 inches

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi addressed a gathering of Congress workers in Jaipur as part of his two-day visit to Rajasthan. He slammed the BJP govt in Rajasthan as well as the Narendra Modi-led govt at the Centre. “ I never understood the practical use of pagdi. After walking 10 km in Rajasthan, I have understood the importance of a pagdi.. I liked the movie Lagaan about the poor of India, and tax being taken from farmers, and how they unite.. In the end, the farmers win. In the movie, and in real life.” He said. “The farmers in our country, the people and the Congress party will make the 56inch chest to 5.6 inch, if they try to grab the lands of the poor” warned the Congress leader.

Rahul Gandhi on Padayatra in Rajasthan, says Congress won't let BJP grab land

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi, who began his two-day visit to Rajasthan on Thursday, said his party will not let the Bharatiya Janata Party grab the land of the people. Addressing a padayatra, Rahul Gandhi said the Congress, like a wall, would prevent the BJP from taking away the rights of the poor. “I have come here just to tell you one thing, Congress will fight for you people not only in Rajasthan but the entire nation,” assured the Congress leader on the first of his two-day visit to the western state. “We will not let anyone take your land without your consent,” Rahul Gandhi added.

Rahul Gandhi in Udaipur, Rajasthan: BJP wants one-man rule, ignores the poor

Udaipur: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi addressed a huge election rally at Udaipur in Rajasthan. "The propagators of 'India Shining' ask what UPA have done in the past ten years. The fact is that they do not go to people and talk to them and hence they are not able to ascertain the reality. BJP is not at all bothered about the poor and downtrodden" said the Congress President and went on to say, "They just need a government of one person and that person is controlled by some business persons. BJP wants one-man rule but Congress looks for people's rule".

Rahul Gandhi at Jhunjhunu (Rajasthan): BJP blindly copied Congress manifesto

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi while addressing a mammoth election rally at Swarn Jayanti Stadium in Jhunjhunu (Rajasthan) launched a scathing attack on BJP by saying that its manifesto is just a blind copy of Congress'. "We had started discussions on our manifesto across the country. We held interactions with various sections of the society. Many people expressed happiness that they could have their rights to job, food and education and they further requested for rights in medicines and shelter. We had started the right to health programme in Rajasthan, now we will implement in the whole country. Similarly we will ensure that all the poor have housing too. We will also will grant right to pension to the old-aged persons. What did BJP do? They just copied our Manifesto and just put in Lotus symbol on it" said the Congress President and asked BJP, "Do something on your own. Why do you blindly copy us?"

Rahul Gandhi interacts with Stone mine workers in Rajasthan

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi is interacting with the stone mine workers in Bikaner at Rajasthan. He listened to the issues of the workers and assured all possible help.

Rahul Gandhi in Tonk: We will fight anti-people policies of the BJP government in Rajasthan

Tonk: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi while addressing a rally in Tonk district's Deoli town in Rajasthan on Monday said that his party would fight against all anti-people policies of the BJP government in the state. Kick-starting the Congress campaign in Rajasthan, Rahul Gandhi said, “We will never forget the poor. We want to enhance our right-based politics”.

Rahul Gandhi in Rajasthan: BJP wants to serve the rich, but Congress works for the poor

Tonk: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi addressed a rally in Tonk district's Deoli town in Rajasthan on Monday as part of his campaign for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. Hitting out at the BJP, Rahul Gandhi said, "BJP just wants to benefit the rich if they come to power. But we want to help the downtrodden" and added "We will go on the road, will go to villages, we will go to streets and we will fight the BJP government in Rajasthan."

Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi Pay tribute to Sis Ram Ola

Congress President and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and party Vice President Rahul Gandhi paid floral tribute to senior Congress Leader and Union minister Sis Ram Ola who breathed his last on Sunday.

Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi interact with media after assembly poll results

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi talks to media persons after the results of assembly poll results. I will put in my efforts to transform the organization so that it regain the confidence of the people, he said.

Rahul Gandhi in (Pushkar) Rajasthan: Congress never ignores poor, whether we win or not

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Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi addressed a mammoth election rally at poll bound Rajasthan and slammed BJP for spreading divisive agenda. “BJP makes people fight with each other, from one caste to another, from one brother to another and makes one state fight with another state.

Sonia Gandhi in Sikar, Rajasthan praises Congress government, hits out at BJP for spreading lies

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Congress President and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi addressed a huge election rally in Sikar at poll bound Rajasthan on Wednesday and launched a blistering attack on BJP for misleading people and spreading lies about the state government. She attributed the credit of the rise of Rajasthan as one of the most developed states of India to Ashok-Gehlot-led Congress government in the state.

Sonia Gandhi at Congress rally at Dungarpur (Rajasthan), praises Congress govt; attacks BJP

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Congress President and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi addressed a huge election rally in Dungarpur at poll bound Rajasthan. She lauded the efforts taken by the Ashok Gehlot- led Congress govt in the state for the welfare and upliftment of the people in the state and also launched a blistering attack on BJP for levelling baseless charges against the state government.

Sonia Gandhi takes on BJP in Kota (Rajasthan), praises Congress government in the state

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Congress President and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi addressed a huge election rally in Kota at poll bound Rajasthan. She lauded the efforts taken by the Ashok Gehlot- led Congress govt in the state for the welfare and upliftment of the people in the state and also launched a blistering attack on BJP for levelling baseless charges against the state government.

Rahul Gandhi addresses Congress rally at at Chittorgarh (Rajasthan); slams BJP

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi addressed a mammoth election rally at Chittorgarh in poll bound Rajasthan and alleged that BJP does not think about the future but only bothered about the present. He also accused it of favouring the interests of businessmen and industrialists over those of the common man.

Rahul Gandhi addresses huge Congress rally in Alwar (Rajasthan); slams BJP; lauds Gehlot Govt

Alwar (Rajasthan): Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday addressed yet another mega election rally at Kheldi in Alwar district of Rajasthan. While speaking on the occasion, the Congress leader said that Congress party’s election manifesto will have the views of common people.

“Normally election manifestoes of political parties are being made behind closed doors. So the Congress party has initiated a process to incorporate common people’s opinion in our political manifesto.  We want to get the opinion of the common people, women, youth and others in our manifesto and we have made a team to do so. The manifesto of Congress party will be a manifesto of the aam aadmi and we will implement it” said Rahul Gandhi.

Before starting my speech let me tell you one thing. Normally election manifestoes of political parties are being made behind closed doors. So the Congress party has initiated a process to incorporate common people’s opinion in our political manifesto.  We want to get the opinion of the common people, women, youth and others in our manifesto and we have made a team to do so. The manifesto of Congress party will be a manifesto of the aam aadmi and we will implement it.

I see huge amount of enthusiasm in you.  During my last speeches in Madhya Pradesh I had talked about my mother and the incident of her falling sick during the debate of Food Security Bill in the Parliament. Normally people do not talk about such personal things during election time. When I went back to Delhi, my mother asked me why I talked about her in a public speech. She told me not talk to talk about her in future and told me to talk about myself, instead. So today I want to do that; talking about myself.

Wherever I go, I talk about development, riots and other matters, but normally do not talk anything personal. Two of my family members were killed by terrorists – my grand mother and my father. I was just 14 years when my grandma was assassinated.

My grandma was my protector when I was a kid. My father was very strict and we were scared of him. For me, it was my grandmother, who used to protect me on many occasions.. For example, I did not like palak sabji. But my father used to put the dish in front of me and I am supposed to have it. What my grandmother used to do was, she would spread open the news paper in front of my father, blocking his vision from me. I used to shift the palak sabji from my plate to grandma’s using the opportunity. That was my relation with my grandma’ she always gave me shelter.

There were cases of terrorism during those days. People of Punjab were angry. My grandma was evicted from her house after she lost elections in 1977. We stayed in a house of my grandma’s friend. Sometimes, in our political system, one loses everything if they lose an election.
I used to see lots of Sikhs in 1977. I could see them with my grandma too. I can also talk about Satwant Singh, Beant Singh. They were my friends. They taught me how to play badminton. They also helped me in my warm up exercises. In fact I had trusted them.  They were angry and one day that anger tempted them to kill my grandma. I also was angry.

I still remember, I was in school and was in a geography class. Someone from my house came to my school and wanted to take me back home. When I telephoned to my house, I heard the servant maid was screaming. I asked whether there is anything wrong with my parents. She said everything alright with them. Then asked about my grandmother and without saying anything she put the phone down. I felt terribly worried. It was like my heart had been torn apart.
When I reached home, I saw blood of grandma at one room and the blood of my ‘friends’ in other room. I was angry with my said ‘friends’ Beant Singh and Satwant Singh for a long time.  It took me long – about 10-15 years- to free myself from that anger. My anger came down as I later understood that those people were blind with anger.

Why I am telling you this now, you may wonder. No one gets angry so easily. In fact people provoke them and make them angry. I had gone to Muzaffarnagar. I interacted with both Muslims and Hindus. I could see myself in them.  I was seeing my face in their tears because I am also a victim of terrorism. Today, lakhs of people are affected by the menace of terrorism.

I was talking to an intelligent officer recently and he told me that some of the victims of Muzaffarnagar riots want to go to Pakistan as they are angry. He said he wanted to talk to them to console them. Some people incited violence and then ask why there is violence. People provoke the people and make them angry. That is the root cause of terrorism.  Our opposition party does just one thing – incites anger among the people and make them fight each other.  Once riots take place and people die, they just vanish. That is what we saw in Muzaffarnagar and Mumbai.

Why do such things happen? They spread hatred for their narrow political gains.  I suffered it twice. We cannot develop with anger; development possible only if there is brotherhood and love. I am told that it was Shekhawat ji’s birthday. I pay respect to him because after all he was an Indian and was a good leader. If we want to progress, we must stay united. We must fight together , win together and in case we have to die, we must die together.

Unity is our strength and if we stay united no force in the earth can beat us.
Now I want to tell you something about Rajasthan and Gehlot Ji. Just now one citizen approached Gehlot Ji and thanked him for his pension scheme for old citizens. I want to inform Gehlot Ji that the free-medicine scheme initiated by the Congress government in Rajasthan will be implemented across the country.
Women get worried if their children do not get sufficient food. The youth get angry if they fail to secure a job. We understand it. That is why we initiated granting rights to the people like Right to Job, Right to Information and Right to food. We gave right to job to address the issue of unemployment. Historic Food Security Bill ensures you food grain at Rs. 1 per kg.  We enacted this law to eradicate hunger from our country.

Every young person in our country is worried when he could secure a job. I have an answer for that. Our government have started building rail and industrial corridors across the country. This will grant huge job opportunities to the people. There will be more and more industries come up in these corridors.
We are fighting for the people’s rights. If Congress forms a government, that will be a government of weaker sections, poor and the youth. That will not be a government of industrialists. We need industrialists and there is a need to join hands with them for development. We need to build a partnership between the common people and the industrialists to take our country forward.

Such a partnership must benefit both the parties. It must not harm the poor. Their lands should not be acquired forcibly or for cheaper prices. That is why we have enacted Land Acquisition Bill. No one can acquire poor people’s lands easily or forcibly. They can acquire lands only with the consent of the land owners and after paying the adequate price – four times than the market price. This will benefit everyone without any discrimination. Even the labourers working in the lands will have the benefit.

We must effectively use the power of the youth. We need to reform the existing political system. Today the doors of our system are closed for the common people and all decisions are being taken by a handful of people in all parties.  The voice of the women, the youth and aam aadmi must be heard by the political system.

BJP wants to spread hatred and make people fight each other. Such ideology is harmful and pains all section of the people. But Congress party believes in inclusive growth. We take everyone along with us. We built more roads than NDA. Terrorism came down sharply under Congress rule than NDA regime. We will continue our efforts and will take our country forward.
Thank you.

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Rahul Gandhi in Alwar (Rajasthan): Voice of women and youth must be heard by the political system

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Alwar (Rajasthan): Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday addressed yet another mega election rally at Kheldi in Alwar district of Rajasthan. Whiule speaking on the occasion, the Congress leader said that Congress party’s election manifesto will have the views of common people. “Normally election manifestoes of political parties are being made behind closed doors. So the Congress party has initiated a process to incorporate common people’s opinion in our political manifesto. We want to get the opinion of the common people, women, youth and others in our manifesto and we have made a team to do so. The manifesto of Congress party will be a manifesto of the aam aadmi and we will implement it” said Rahul Gandhi.

Rahul Gandhi in Churu (Rajasthan) says he is not afraid of getting killed Part 01

Churu (Rajasthan): Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday addressed a mammoth election rally at Churu in Rajasthan and slammed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for igniting communal fire in the country for its narrow political gains. "What does BJP do? They spark communal fire whether it is in Muzaffarnagar, Gujarat, UP, Kashmir or elsewhere. Then we have to go to the people to put the fire out. This is harmful for our country. My grandmother and father were assassinated and tomorrow I also may get killed; but I just don't care" said the Congress Vice President and the huge crowd acknowledged it with loud applauds. "BJP spreads divisive ideology for its narrow political gains. I had gone to Muzaffarnagar. I interacted with both Muslims and Hindus. I could see myself in them. I was seeing my face in their tears. I want all Indians live together, fight together and die together" he continued.

Rahul Gandhi in Churu recalls assassination of Indira Gandhi and Rajiv Gandhi; slams BJP's politics of hate

Churu (Rajasthan): Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday addressed a mammoth election rally at Churu in Rajasthan and slammed Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for igniting communal fire in the country for its narrow political gains.

During my last speeches in Madhya Pradesh I had talked about my mother and the incident of her falling sick during the debate of Food Security Bill in the Parliament. Normally people do not talk about such personal things during election time. When I went back to Delhi, my mother asked me why I talked about her in a public speech. She told me not talk to talk about her in future and told me to talk about myself, instead. So today I want to do that; talking about myself.

Wherever I go, I talk about development, riots and other matters, but normally do not talk anything personal. When I was coming here, one of our leaders told me about the visit of Rajiv Gandhi to Rajasthan. He told me that Rajiv ji visited here on 1987 October, 31st. I wondered as I knew that it was never possible that he had visited Rajasthan on that particular date because as all of you know, it was on October 31st, my grand mother was assassinated. In fact, Rajiv Gandhi had visited here on Aug 31. I used to attack BJP for its divisive politics for spreading hatred among Hindus and Muslims. But I never told you why I was doing so. Today I am going to tell you about it.

When myself and Priyanka were kids, my father was very strict and we were scared of him. For me, it was my grandmother, who used to protect me on many occasions.. For example, I did not like palak sabji. But my father used to put the dish in front of me and I am supposed to have it. What my grandmother used to do was, she would spread open the news paper in front of my father, blocking his vision from me. I used to shift the palak sabji from my plate to grandma’s using the opportunity. That was my relation with my grandma.

She was the Prime Minister of the country and that time I never knew what power a Prime Minister possesses; for me she was just my grandmother.  There was an assistant for grandmamma named Nathuram. Everyone was scared of my grandma, but I was not, as she was my protector.  Sometimes, Nathguram used to come to me and to know my grandma’s mood... and i used to tell him whether her mood was good or bad.

I also had two-three friends there; they used to look after my grandma. Their names were Satwant Singh, Beant Singh, Kehar Singh and Balbir Singh. I was very close to them; one of them had taught me how to play badminton. They also helped me in my warm up exercises. In fact I had trusted them.

One day when I was on my routine morning walk in the garden, Beant Singh had come to me and asked me where does my grandma sleep? I felt that question a bit disturbing. I did not like that question from him. I did not give him proper answer as I smelled something fishy in that.  He also asked me whether I was happy with the security arrangements of my grandma; he also gave me some safety tips to escape from any sudden attack.

I had forgotten about that and very later only I recollected those. Then I realised that Satwant Singh and Beant Singh had planned earlier also, prior to her assassination, to kill my grandma during a Deepawali. You all know what had happened after that. My grandma was assassinated and many of my Sikh brothers sitting in front me know what all took place during that time.

I lost my grandma. I still remember, I was in school and was in a geography class. Someone from my house came to my school and wanted to take me back home. When I telephoned to my house, I heard the servant maid was screaming. I asked whether there is anything wrong with my parents. She said everything alright with them. Then asked about my grandmother and without saying anything she put the phone down. When  I asked my security persons about my grandma they told me that though she had received bullets, she was fine. I felt terribly worried. It was like my heart had been torn apart. My legs were trembling. I picked up Priyanka also from her school and both of us went home.

When I reached home, I saw blood of grandma at one room and the blood of my ‘friends’ in other room. I was angry with my said ‘friends’ Beant Singh and Satwant Singh for a long time.  It took me long – about 10-15 years- to free myself from that anger. My anger came down as I later understood that those people were blind with anger. They were very angry. Today, I also know that, the anger inside my Sikh brothers also has come down.

It takes a long time to get rid of the anger. To become angry is very easy but to control it takes time to douse it.  Few days back, a MLA from Punjab had come to meet me.  He told me he feels so elated to sit with me in my room. When I asked him why he said so, he replied that he would have killed me if he had met me before 20 years because he was angry that time.

Why I am telling you this now, you may wonder. No one gets angry so easily. In fact people provoke them and make them angry. Some political parties do so and that is why I am against BJP’s politics. They spread divisive ideology for their narrow political gains. I had gone to Muzaffarnagar. I interacted with both Muslims and Hindus. I could see myself in them.  I was seeing my face in their tears. I want all Indians live together, fight together and die together.

What does BJP do? They spark communal fire whether it is in Muzaffarnagar, Gujarat, UP, Kashmir or elsewhere.  Then we have to go to the people to put the fire out. This is harmful for our country. My grandmother and father were assassinated and tomorrow I also may get killed; but I just don’t care.
This was what I wanted to tell you and now I want to tell you something about Rajasthan and Gehlot Ji.

One gets angry when he is hungry. Women get worried if their children do not get sufficient food. The youth get angry if they fail to secure a job. We understand it. That is why we initiated granting rights to the people like Right to Job and Right to food. We gave right to job to address the issue of unemployment. Food Security Bill ensures you food grain at Rs. 1 per kg.  We enacted this law to eradicate hunger from our country.

Congress party has initiated a politics of granting people’s right in its past 9 years’ rule. We also enacted Land Acquisition Bill to benefit the farmers as well as the labourers working in those lands.

We know there is hunger in our Country. There are rich and poor sections in India. We need a partnership - the poor and rich need to join hands and take the country forward. Without enterprises, industrial units we can not move ahead. 
BJP talks about roads but Congress built three times more roads than them. We not only constructed roads but also gave the rights to job and food to the poor.
I also want to tell you something about Churu. PCC President was saying that this place suffers from both the highest and the lowest temperatures. There are issues of water scarcity also here and we have therefore extended the Indira Gandhi canal to this place.

 Gehlot Ji has done some tremendous works for the welfare of the people here like improvement in electricity, pension schemes for senior citizens, and free medicines for the poor including for animals.  His government here wants to take everyone along in the process of dev elopement.  We believe in inclusive growth.
Since you want me to talk more, let me share some more thoughts with you. I want to tell you about the future and foresight as well.

I am not here just to win the elections.  I want to assure you that Churu is going to get more developmental projects and I am sure this will benefit the people here, especially the youth. I know that I made a long speech and since I am in good mood now, I want to continue it a bit more. The youth here may have to go to go to various places in our country and even abroad.

Majority of manufacturing takes place in China. Even if I check the mike here, I might see a ‘made in China’ label in it too. Major countries like USA, England, Japan, Italy want manufacturing be taken place in China or elsewhere. India also can be a good option. We are improving infrastructure across the country including your Churu. Churu will soon have more factories in the near future. The youth here will not only get jobs but also will have opportunity to go abroad and will make India proud.

We need partnership to achieve this too. We need to build up a healthy partnership of the poor and the rich –a partnership of the farmers, workers and the government.

We need to reform the existing political system also in the coming 10 years. Today the doors of our system are closed for the common people and all decisions are being taken by a handful of people in all parties. You all have mobiles phone in your pockets – thanks to Rajiv Ji. Similarly, I want the keys of political decisions also in the pockets of our youth.

 Positive changes will take place in all political parties after 2014. Take it from me. All parties will be forced to do so. Thank you.

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Rahul Gandhi Speaks at Kheldi (Alwar)in Rajasthan

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi arrives in Alwar at Rajasthan to address a big Congress Rally.