NDA govt works for corporate and have no concerns for poor: Kharge

New Delhi: Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday wrote a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi accusing his government of working only for the corporate and having no concerns for the poor and dispossessed.

In his letter to Modi, Kharge said, “The Congress has been talking about the deprived poor and their rights (Nyay). We are aware that you and your government does not have any concern for the poor and dispossessed”.

Calling the Modi government as the ‘suit-boot ki sarkar’, he said, “Your government works for the corporates whose taxes you reduced, while salaries class pays higher taxes. The poor pays GST even on food and salt and rich corporate claim GST refunds.”

The Congress President said that when the party talks about inequality between rich and poor, the Modi government purposely equates it with Hindu and Muslim.

The Rajya Sabha MP in his letter said, “The Congress has always served to empower the poor and you have rules to snatch the earnings and wealth of the poor. Your government was the one who used Demonetisation as an “organised loot and legalised plunder” to transfer the money deposited by the poor in the banks of the rich in the form of loans”.

He further said that the Congress Nyay Patra aimed at providing justice to all the youth, women, farmers, labours and marginalised people across all castes and communities.

Kharge also accused the government of turning away from the atrocities being faced by the poor and backward women.

“You talk about mangalsutra. Isn’t your government responsible for the atrocities against women in Manipur, atrocities against Dalit girls, garlanding of rapists? Please read about the Nari Nyay which we will be implementing when we come to power,” the Rajya Sabha MP said.

“You are being misinformed by your advisors about things that are not even written in our manifesto. I would be more than happy to meet you in person to explain our Nyay Patra so that as the Prime Minister of the country you don’t make any statements that are false,” he said in his letter.

He also accused the PM of lowering the dignity of the chair by using vulgar language during election rallies and held the ‘dismal performance of the BJP in the first phase of the election’ responsible for the same.

UNI