Aurangabad: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants the youth to remain busy in making social media reels, so that they stay distracted from pressing problems about education, health and employment.
Addressing back-to-back rallies in Bihar’s Aurangabad and Gayaji, Gandhi charged the PM with promoting “addiction” to social media.
“Modi wants you to become addicted to making reels, Instagram, Facebook… This is the new high (‘nasha’) of the 21st century. He wants such a scenario because this would ensure that the youth remain distracted, and do not hold his government accountable for their problems about education, health and employment,” he alleged.
Gandhi also claimed that Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah “were indulging in ‘vote chori’ (vote theft) in Bihar, as they know the NDA would not win the assembly polls”.
The former Congress president also rebutted repeated assertions by the BJP and other NDA leaders that his party, in alliance with the RJD, would bring back “jungle raj” if voted to power in Bihar, and alleged that the PM was promoting lawlessness through vote theft.
“Whenever Modi comes here, he speaks about ‘jungle raj’. I will tell you what that is. ‘Jungle raj’ has been brought in Delhi, by Modi, who is enabling vote theft. He has done so in Maharashtra and Haryana. He wants to do the same in Bihar. But, I am sure that the people of Bihar will defeat his designs,” Gandhi asserted.
“The INDIA bloc, if voted to power in Bihar, will be a government of the extremely backward, socially marginalised and Dalits,” the Rae Bareli MP said.
He said it would transform the state into a manufacturing hub, ensure labels of ‘made-in-Bihar’ on clothes and mobile phones, “so that even China is forced to sit up and take note”.
Gandhi also promised to revive the ancient glory of Bihar by setting up a state-of-the-art university at Nalanda, if the opposition bloc came to power.
Slamming the NDA government in the state, Gandhi accused Chief Minister Nitish Kumar of turning the youth of Bihar into labourers, and “destroying” all employment options for them.
“Nitish Kumar, who works on the directions from those sitting in New Delhi, and Narendra Modi gifted unemployment to the youth of Bihar,” the Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha alleged.
“Question paper leaks are also a regular affair in Bihar, benefitting the financially rich students,” Gandhi added.
Modi has a fake degree, alleges Rahul in Bihar
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday charged Prime Minister Narendra Modi with possessing a “fake degree”, and blamed it for the latter’s alleged indifference towards education.
The Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha made the jibe at the PM in one of his rallies in Bihar, where he addressed three back-to-back election meetings on the final day of campaign for the first phase of assembly polls.
The Raebareli MP recalled that in ancient times, Nalanda was home to “one of the best universities, seeking admission to which students from China, Japan and Korea used to make a beeline”.
“But Narendra Modi has no appreciation for such things. He possesses a degree that is fake,” alleged Gandhi.
The former Congress president also said that the INDIA bloc, if voted to power, will build a centre of higher learning in Nalanda.
