Amethi/Rae Bareli: Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi accusing him of favouring industrialists over farmers even though they have been facing an unprecedented crisis. Addressing party workers in his parliamentary constituency Amethi, the Congress chief said while farmers were in distress with ever-mounting debts, Modi was busy helping his industrialist friends by waiving off their loans.
He also accused Modi of overlooking state-owned aerospace and defence company, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), which had been making planes for the past 70 years and giving contracts to make jet fighter planes to help an industrialist friend. He said the “chowkidar” has siphoned off the money meant for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) and given it to Nirav Modi, the diamond merchant who ran off to foreign shores with it. (IANS)
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