Prime Minister has no Clue about Varanasi Villages: Priyanka Gandhi

Ayodhya: Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday took a pot shot at Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying when he does not know anything about villages in his Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency how will he develop them. Priyanka Gandhi said this as she huddled with a group of women under a scorching sun in Uttar Pradesh’s Atka village here.

Launching a blistering attack on Modi two days after his Mission Shakti, Gandhi said, “If you cannot listen to the voice of your people, then what kind of power do you have?” She also did not spare BJP President Amit Shah and called the saffron party’s 2014 promise of giving Rs 15 lakh to every citizen as “rhetoric”. The Congress leader said that the BJP and its leaders stay away from villages and keep on lying. This is the second time in her three-day tour of the state that the Congress’ eastern in-charge of the state has brought up the Prime Minister and his work.

Priyanka Gandhi said it was the Congress which had brought the people-friendly schemes like MGNREGA to give employment to people across the country. “When they were in opposition, they opposed the MGNREGA, but as soon as they came to power they realised how good the scheme was,” she said. “These projects have now gone into the hands of contractors,” she alleged, adding that now the people enrolled are not getting money for over six months. “Actually, they want to close this scheme.” (IANS)

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