Rahul stages roadshow, train guns on BJP, Modi

Aggressively wooing voters in the last lap of electioneering in Amethi, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi today staged an impressive roadshow and addressed poll rallies, launching a scathing attack on the BJP alleging its intentions on the development issue were not clean.
The Gandhi scion further alleged that Narendra Modi's development model was limited to one or two industrialists, of which one was Adani.
Intentions of the BJP and its prime ministerial nominee were not clean on the development issue, Gandhi told a poll rally at Tekarmafi here.
If voted to power, they intend to abolish welfare schemes like food security and employment guarantee introduced by the UPA government, he said.

Pulling out all the stops to woo voters, the Congress leader claimed that farmers, who had been deprived of their land in Gujarat, were not being considered as native residents and were being forced to leave the state.
The Congress-led government waived Rs 70,000 crore loan of the farmers, he said adding on the other hand, Modi gave land worth Rs 40,000 crore to Adani alone.

"In Gujarat, 45,000 acre land of farmers was given to Adani at the rate of Rs 1 per square metre which was later sold at the rate of Rs 800 per square metre.
"Before giving land to Adani, Modi didn't ask farmers even once. We fought for Bhatta Parsaul... Leading to the enactment of land acquisition law," he said.

"Farmers in Gujarat are a harassed lot. They are being forced to leave the state. Some of the farmers met me and narrated their stories," Gandhi said.
The Congress leader said he respected women a lot and realised that they played an important role in the working of the country and had, therefore, created opportunities for 12 lakh of them by connecting them with banks.
"Modi talks about giving power to women. I want to tell him that women of India are not weak. They are internally strong. Modi should learn to respect women," he said.
In an apparent reference to the snoopgate row, Gandhi alleged policemen in Gujarat used to tap phones of women and harassed them.