India Doesn't Have A PM, But A King Who...: Rahul Reiterates 'Two Indias' Statement In U'khand Rally

Addressing a rally in Uttarakhand's Kichha, Rahul Gandhi reiterated that there are two Indias today, one for the rich and one for the poor.

New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday remarked that India does not have a Prime Minister today, but a king who believes that people should keep quiet when he takes a decision.

Addressing a rally titled 'Uttarakhandi Kisan Swabhiman Samvad' in Kichha, the Wayanad MP also accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of leaving farmers on roads for a year while the Coronavirus pandemic was raging and said that the Congress will never treat them in such a manner.

Rahul Gandhi said that his party will never shut its doors on farmers, labourers or the poor and it wants a partnership with them.

"If a Prime Minister does not work for all he cannot be a PM. By that token, Narendra Modi is not a PM," he said, as quoted by news agency PTI.

"India does not have a PM today. It has a king who believes that when the king takes a decision, everyone else should keep quiet," he added.

Hitting out at PM Modi over the year-long farmers' protest against the Centre's agrarian laws, the former Congress president said that the Prime Minister left farmers on the road amid the pandemic.

He asserted that his party will never treat farmers the way the Modi government did and added: "Congress will never shut its doors on farmers while it is in power. We want to work in partnership with farmers, the poor and labourers so that every section feels it is their government."

Rahul Gandhi also congratulated the farmers for their "rock-solid resistance" against the three agrarian laws that forced the Union government to withdraw them.

Meanwhile, he reiterated his remarks delivered in Lok Sabha as he said that there are two Indias today, one for the rich and one for the poor.

"A select group of around 100 people in the country have as much wealth as 40 per cent of the country's population. Such income disparity is not seen anywhere else," he said.

Industrialists did not fight the British, the farmers and labourers of the country did, he added.

Rahul Gandhi made the "two Indias" remark in Lok Sabha during the debate on the Motion of Thanks to the President's address.

Polling for the 70-member Uttarakhand Assembly will be held on February 14. The counting of votes will be taken up on March 10.

(With Agency Inputs)