Edited by Deepali Verma
The BJP, in counter-response to the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, said that Gandhi would like people to believe that the faith of Hindus can be manipulated easily. However, no one wants Gandhi to interpret how they should practise their beliefs.
The Ram temple is an emotion resonating among Hindus in every corner of the country, Union minister and BJP leader Rajeev Chandrasekhar said in response to Rahul Gandhi’s allegation of BJP turning the January 22 consecration ceremony at Ayodhya into a party event.
The former Congress president targeted the BJP over the Ram temple issue and also slammed the Modi government for its handling of the economy. Mr Chandrasekhar, addressing a press conference in Delhi, gave Gandhi a fitting response.
“Rahul Gandhi resides in a la-la world. He is of the view that everything he says is predicated on nobody understanding the truth and that he can get by with any of these atrocious lies,” remarked Mr Chandrasekhar.
“He made efforts to do so in 2014 and 2019 and is trying again. But, the people of Bharat are wise enough. They have an understanding of the truth and what his politics is about,” he added.
Previously, Rahul Gandhi while in Nagaland has cited the reason for absence of his party’s leaders on the January 22 ceremony as the BJP and the RSS have turned it into a “political event” centred around Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
His remarks came during a press conference while he was on his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra around the same time when Congress top brass declined the invitation to the event at the Ram temple in Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh.
A NITI Aayog report recorded that over 24.82 crore people moved out of multidimensional poverty in nine years till 2022-23. In appreciation of the same, Mr Chandrasekhar lauded PM Modi’s pro-poor and welfare policies for the development and accused Congress of misguiding the poor with their empty slogans of ‘Garibi Hatao’. Adding further, he said that the Modi government has made a transformational impact.
Notably from 2015, over 1 lakh start-ups and 112 unicorns have come up, the BJP leader said, adding that a parliamentary report in 2012 has records that nine groups have cornered 97 per cent of the net worth in the banking system.
Capital availability for the young innovators that was once scarce is now on the rise due to a supportive system, he added.
Mr Chandrasekhar claims that there will be 10 lakh start-ups and 10 thousand unicorns in the coming 10 years, asserting that Bharat will transform from a technology-producing country to a technology-consuming country.
