New Delhi: The Congress party on Sunday kick-started its campaign for the upcoming Assembly elections in Rajasthan with the rally of party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. She launched the "Indira Rasoi" rural scheme of the state government and addressed a public meeting in Jhilai village of Niwai in Tonk district of Rajasthan on Sunday.
"Be it Indira Rasoi Yojana or Chiranjeevi Yojana, all these schemes are possible because the money of the government belongs to people... The government whose intent is right will spend it for your benefit... The Rajasthan Congress's government is such a kind of government..," Ms Vadra said.
The Congress leader also launched a scathing attack on the Narendra Modi government, saying its policies are meant to benefit the rich and not the poor.
Addressing the party rally in Niwai in poll-bound Rajasthan, the Congress general secretary alleged that the Prime Minister goes on foreign visits and strikes deals for his industrialist friends.
Ms Vadra questioned the logic of the BJP's claim that the old pension scheme was not financially feasible. She pointed out that if it is being successfully run in Rajasthan, that means it is possible, adding that the BJP government has enough money to waive off hundreds of crores of loans of their industrialist friends but no money for the old pension scheme.
Maintaining that in a democracy it is the public that is supreme, Ms Vadra said that some people have grown so arrogant that they have started believing and preaching as if they alone have done everything.
The Congress general secretary said that ever since the BJP government had come to power at the Centre, it has looted the poor and helped a few billionaire industrialist friends. She pointed out that the Central government had earned an extra '32-lakh crores by increasing taxes on diesel and petrol and all this money belonged to the poor.
Among those present on the occasion were Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Ghelot, state in-charge Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, PCC president Govind Dotasra, senior leaders Sachin Pilot, C.P. Joshi and others.
