Rahul Gandhi has blamed Prime Minister Modi for the sudden Covid lockdown that “destroyed the disorganized sector.”
New Delhi:
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today released a new video targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the central government for “destroying the disorganized sector”, which he had earlier called the backbone of the Indian economy, with the “sudden” national lockdown. to control the spread of the coronavirus. He emphasized that the government must introduce a “NYAY-like scheme”: the minimum wage social welfare scheme proposed by Congress in its 2019 electoral manifesto.
“The poor, those in small and medium-sized enterprises, are daily wage earners. They eat what they earn every day. When you (PM Modi) announced a shutdown without warning, you attacked them. The Prime Minister said the fight will be for 21 days, the backbone of the unorganized sector was broken in 21 days, “Gandhi said.
Citing government data, today’s video, the latest in a four-part series in which Gandhi has carried out demonetization, goods and services tax and coronavirus lockdown for a record contraction of the Indian economy, claims that more 97 lakhs of migrant workers were “sent home”, and estimates shared on youth unemployment and the closure of small and medium-sized businesses.
The money should be deposited directly into (poor people’s) bank accounts, Gandhi said, reiterating what his party colleague and former Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram has repeatedly said about ways to revive the Indian economy since its record crash. 23.9 percent.
“We suggest that for small and medium-sized enterprises, they should prepare a package … Instead, the government exempted millions of million rupees from taxes on the top fifteen twenty richest people,” Gandhi said.
“The shutdown was not an attack on the crown. The shutdown was an attack on the poor of India. The shutdown was an attack on workers, farmers and small businesses. It was an attack on our disorganized sector,” Gandhi said.
The video was shared hours after Gandhi shared the coronavirus numbers for India, now the second highest in the world, and blamed the center’s “mismanagement.”
Due to the great mismanagement of Covid by Modi Govt:
1. India’s total cases are the second highest in the world.
2. India’s weekend count is higher than the US and Brazil combined.
3. On Sunday, India’s share was 40% of total cases worldwide.
4. No flattening of the curve.
Everyone stay safe.
– Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) September 8, 2020
Wayanad’s congressional deputy has led his party’s attack on the BJP-led central government in the weeks after the shutdown, dismissing the Rs20 lakh crore economic stimulus package as a “joke”.
The BJP, however, has dismissed these attacks. Recently, the Union’s Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, had described the huge reduction in the GST, linked to the cornavirus pandemic, as “an act of God.”
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