NEW DELHI: BJP today hit back at Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi for targeting Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the farmers issue, and accused him of running an “anti-growth and anti-development campaign” against the government to create a negative atmosphere.
BJP said Rahul’s pro-active approach in hitting out at the government is to reclaim his own lost ground which he is doing with the help of lies.
The party also questioned Rahul on what the Congress-led UPA regime did for the farmers in the last decade.
“Rahul Gandhi is doing so to find his lost ground and political relevance, for which he taking the support of lies.
The farmers want to know from him what he or his Congress government did for resolving their problem in the last decade, which has been inherited by the NDA.
“He is running a campaign that is anti-growth and anti-development to create a negative atmosphere against the government,” BJP national secretary Shrikant Sharma said.
He said while rating agencies are predicting a high growth rate for India in the coming times and a positive atmosphere has been created the world over in favor of the country, the Congress Vice-President is trying to negate all achievements.
The BJP leader also said that by turning active, Rahul is also trying to address the internal problems within the Congress and hold his losing ground.
He said while India was viewed as a weak nation during UPA-I and II, the atmosphere has turned very positive for India the world over under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership.
Rahul targeted Modi and accused him of going back on his poll promises to farmers, as he kicked off a 15-km padyatra in Telangana to reach out to the agrarian community.
“When the unseasonal rains came and when there was hailstorm, Modi did nothing,” the Congress Vice President said, while addressing farmers in the region which has witnessed a spate of suicides due to agrarian distress.
Rahul also criticized the controversial land acquisition bill brought by the Modi dispensation, alleging that it will “spell doom for farmers” as the government has taken away key provisions like social audit.
Meanwhile, Union Tourism Minister Mahesh Sharma, taking a swipe at Rahul, said the Congress leader was good at “doing little work and getting the maximum publicity”.
“Rahul Gandhi is a specialist in doing little work and getting the maximum publicity… He goes to farmers’ house and takes pictures at their place to portray as if he is concerned about their cause,” Sharma said.
He was speaking to reporters after inaugurating the ‘Art of Calligraphy and Beyond: Arabic-Persian Inscriptions on Decorative Arts objects’ at National Museum here.
The Union Minister said the country men knew “who is acting and who is doing the real work.” –PTI
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Gandhi today kicked off his 15-km padyatra from Koratikal village of Telangana to highlight the problems faced by farmers in the drought-stricken villages.
On extending e-visas for the Chinese, the Union Minister said the move would help increase the number of in-bound tourists from China.
“…We get only 1.75 lakh Chinese tourists. But, in turn, 6.75 lakh tourists from India visit China every year,” he said, adding that efforts would be made to increase the number of tourists travelling to India from China.
The exhibition, which will be on till July 12 has several artefacts including a brass shallow bowl from circa 1495 CE and celestials dating back to 17th century. It is an exhibition of Islamic-style writing on objects of daily use.
With this, the age-old aesthetics of calligraphy and craftsmanship have been combined in a rare display. Displaying 56 utility artefacts from the past five centuries, ‘Art of Calligraphy and Beyond: Arabic-Persian Inscriptions on Decorative Arts objects’ at National Museum (NM) focuses on tastefully done inscriptions on metal-ware, wood, textiles and semi-precious stones – all of them from its own reserve collections, a statement said.
The name of the patron or calligrapher is also inscribed on the objects, the statement added.
For instance, a brass shallow bowl from circa 1495 CE (the oldest at the show) belongs to Sultan Sikander Lodi who ruled Delhi for 28 years from 1489, a statement added.
Interestingly, it informs the name of the calligrapher as Mohmood Bin Mahammad Bin Haji Mahmood Farsi. Similarly, a brass globe from the period of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan (1627-58).–PTI
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