New Delhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday attacked the government for focusing on 2-3 billionaires but not farmers, reported news agency ANI. Rahul met with sugarcane farmers and young people on the second day of his two-day visit to poll-bound Karnataka. He addressed a public meeting in the state.


"Nowadays, focus is only on 2-3 billionaires, but it should be on farmers, labourers and small vendors....billionaires get loan from bank easily & if something happens, it gets waived off easily but farmers loans are never waived off": Rahul Gandhi, Congress leader interacts with Sugarcane farmers in Belagavi's Ramdurg






"GST has been implemented only to help the rich in the country - five different taxes. It's a very complicated tax structure. Half of the people can't even understand when and how they have to file it. The big businesses have accountants, while the small businesses don't. So, small businesses shut down. When our Govt comes to Delhi, we will change this GST. There will be one tax and minimum tax," he added.


The former president of the AICC met with sugarcane farmers at Ramdurg in the Belagavi district.


He is scheduled to travel to Gadag to participate in "Yuva Samvaad," or youth interaction.


After that, Gandhi will attend a public meeting in the evening in Hangal, a district in the neighboring constituency of Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai. Bommai is challenging from the Shiggaon segment in the district.


After that, the leader of the Congress will head to Hubballi to catch a flight back to Delhi.


On the occasion of Basaveshwara's birthday, which is celebrated as "Basava Jayanti" in the state, Gandhi paid tribute to the 12th-century poet and social reformer at his resting place in Kudala Sangama when he arrived in Karnataka on Sunday. He then, at that point, ventured out to Vijayapura where he held a massive roadshow and tended to a public gathering.


On March 29, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar announced the poll schedule for the election of the 224-member Karnataka Legislative Assembly. The state will go to polls on May 10 and the votes will be counted on May 13. 


The term of the current Karnataka Legislative Assembly would end on May 24, 2023. 


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