Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday urged the people of Bihar to vote the INDIA bloc to power to usher in an era of progress and overall development, particularly in education and employment opportunities.
Addressing a largely attended public rally in Sonbarsa, she also listed several public welfare schemes which the INDIA bloc government will implement in Bihar, similar to those successfully introduced by Congress governments in Karnataka and Telangana.
The Congress leader said that today under the NDA rule, Bihar does not have any voice. She said even Chief Minister Nitish Kumar does not have any say in key decisions, as the state is being run through directions from Delhi.
She also took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for frequently complaining about being “insulted” by the opposition. She suggested that he should set up a “Ministry of Insults”, which will keep and maintain a record of all such “insults”. This, she noted, will save the precious time of the Prime Minister, which he can instead devote to addressing the country’s real issues.
She suggested to the Prime Minister that the proposed “ministry” can also maintain records of the insults hurled at her family every day by the ruling party — enough, she quipped, to fill an entire library.
The Wayanad MP also alleged that the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) was a very big conspiracy not only aimed at disenfranchising people, but also at denying them the benefits of various welfare schemes of the government. She said 65 lakh voters in Bihar had been disenfranchised under this conspiracy.
She expressed deep concern over the decline in the education system in Bihar, which she said was once among the best. She recalled that Bihar had produced IAS, IPS and IFS officers who served the country in different capacities. However, she lamented that the system had now been destroyed with paper leaks becoming the new normal.
Referring to Prime Minister Modi asking people of Bihar what they wanted and how much money they needed, she questioned him as to why now after 20 years.
“Why are such offers made only at the time of elections?” she asked.
