In eastern UP, Priyanka flays BJP

Kushinagar (UP): Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday flayed the Centre for selling off PSUs and the UP government for not filling up 12 lakh vacant posts as she accused the BJP of “working only for the rich” and its “big industrialist friends”.

The Congress general secretary also slammed the Centre over the nowrepealed farm laws which she claimed would have benefitted “big industrialist friends of the government” at the cost of farmers’ hard work. Addressing a poll rally in Tamkuhi Raj area of Kushinagar in support of Congress candidate and its state unit president Ajay Kumar Lallu, Priyanka Gandhi also hit out at the government for inflation, high fuel prices and electricity bills, farmers’ woes, among others.

She asked why the situation was such in the last five years that the youth are unable to find jobs, small traders and businessmen are worried over new policies being announced, farmers can’t earn a living, women are hit by inflation and concern for their safety, security. “How did such politics flourish here? For whom are these policies being made? It’s time to open eyes and understand this.

The politics being done in this state and in the country is only for the rich, only for a select few industrialists,” Priyanka Gandhi said. She said employment is generated either from agriculture sector or middle-size businesses, government jobs and public sector undertakings (PSUs) like BHEL, ITI, Railways, etc. which were nurtured by the Congress and were public property but the BJP has sold them off.

“There are 12 lakh vacant government job posts but UP CM and PM Modi, both of whom talk big, have failed to fill up these 12 lakh posts. Today during the elections, they come and say to you that they have provided four lakh jobs when they had promised 70 lakh jobs,” she said.