Rahul launches campaign for Bihar poll, dubs Modi 'Feku'

Dubbing Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a "feku" (braggart), Rahul Gandhi today accused him of not fulfilling promises made to people and working only for a few "suited-booted" people.
Launching the Congress campaign for the Bihar Assembly polls, Rahul said,"Modi says that he and his friends wearing suit-boot will change India. Give two crore new jobs every year, provide 100 per cent enhanced minimum support price to farmers for their produce and would deposit Rs 15 lakh in everyone's account by getting back black money stashed abroad.
"Tell me whether any of these things happened?," Rahul asked amid cries of 'No, no" from the audience.

He went on to add, "Feku thaa, Hai" (He was a braggart and he remains so).
Addressing a conference here in Bihar's West Champaran district to mark the 125th Birth Anniversary of dalit icon B R Ambedkar, Rahul tried to paint Modi and BJP as pro rich.
"A suit-boot barrister Mahatama Gandhi shed it for the sake of the poor, but Narendra Modi, who claims to be a tea-seller, went for Rs 15 lakh suit after becoming Prime Minister."

Mahatama Gandhi had launched his satyagrah for the cause of farmers from Bitharwa, 12 km from Ramnagar, in 1917 against the British rule.

The occasion served as the launch pad for the poll campaign by the grand secular alliance of Congress, JD(U) and RJD in the Bihar elections. The rally is the first major show by the alliance after the announcement of the five-phase Bihar Assembly poll.
Before this, the secular alliance had organised a "swabhiman rally" at Patna on August 30 in which Sonia Gandhi had shared dias with RJD chief Lalu Prasad and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar.
Kumar and Lalu Prasad skipped the rally but deputed K C Tyagi and Tejaswi Yadav, son of Lalu Prasad, to represent their parties.
A day before the Congress is organising a mega-kisan samman rally in the national capital, Rahul warned people of the backward agrarian state that "Modiji and his friends wearing suit-boot want to usurp your land. They say you give your land and they will give development and jobs to the youth of Bihar.

"Your land will be taken away and you will not get any employment. We have formed this alliance because we want to protect poor, weak and the oppressed. We want to save you from Modiji and his friends".
The Congress vice president made several references to "elitist culture" promoted by the Prime Minister in support of his "suit-boot ki sarkar" barb.