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Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on sunday said that PM Modi only listens to “people in suit-boot” and Modi’s ‘Make in India’ does not have “place for labourers, farmers but for only those whom he meets and talks”.
“We don’t want such India. This is not ‘Make in India’. This is Modi’s ‘take in India’,” he said.
At the “Kisan Samman Rally” rally to mark the party’s “victory” on the land bill, in New Delhi Rahul said: “On the one hand, they want to snatch your land, on the other your rights. In the end, you will get nothing. His two-three chosen friends will get it in the end.”
He also said the battle on land bill has shifted to state assemblies and Congress will fight it. He said fight over land bill was about not just about land but also heart, prestige and future of farmers.
Former prime minister Manmohan Singh accused the NDA government of trying to weaken the welfare programmes of the previous UPA government.
He said the Congress was able to stop the “conspiracy” of the Modi government on the land bill under the leadership of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.
The issue will need “more struggle”, he said.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi also mounted a strong attack on Modi, saying he was forced to “bow” on the land bill issue before the power of the “plough and hand”.