Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi said on Saturday that PM Narendra Modi should not think only about industrialists, but about farmers too.

Speaking at a padyatra in UP’s Bundelkhand, Rahul accused the PM of not doing enough for the water-scarce region. “I would ask Modiji to think a little about the farmers, the labourers and the poor because they, too, run the country, not just the industrialists. I want to tell Modiji that the food you eat, pulses that are selling at Rs 220, are provided to you by farmers,” he said.

At a chaupal in Supa village, he said: “Bundelkhand is facing drought. Farmers, labourers and poor are in pain. People are leaving villages and moving to cities. We neither have government in Delhi nor in UP (that is concerned about the farmers).” He said if the BJP government at the Centre or the SP government in UP had implemented the MGNREGA properly, the migration would have stopped.

He added: “During the UPA regime, the international price of crude petroleum was $150 per barrel. This has now fallen to $28. Some portion of the profit could be diverted to Bundelkhand in the form of special package or loan waiver.”

Hitting out at the PM’s statement on the suicide of Dalit youth Rohith Vemula, Rahul said if he was “really pained” he should remove HCU’s V-C who “drove Rohith to suicide”.

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