Accusing the NDA of vote theft and diverting the youth’s attention away from issues plaguing the country, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said the BJP-led NDA knew “it would not win the assembly polls”.
Addressing a poll rally in Bihar’s Aurangabad, Gandhi alleged the Prime Minister was promoting “addiction” to social media so that youngsters remain distracted with making social media reels and ignorant of pressing problems such as education, health and employment.
“Modi wants you to become addicted to making reels, Instagram, Facebook... This is the new high (‘nasha’) of the 21st century. He wants such a scenario because this would ensure that the youth remain distracted, and do not hold his government accountable for their problems about education, health and employment,” Gandhi said.
Claiming both PM Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah to have been “indulging in ‘vote chori’ (vote theft) in Bihar, the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha said they both knew that the “NDA would not win the assembly polls”.
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Promising to make a government that’s “for the economically and socially marginalised”, Gandhi said, “The INDIA bloc, if voted to power in Bihar, will be a government of the extremely backward, socially marginalised and Dalits.”
He also slammed the NDA government in the state and its chief minister, Nitish Kumar, of turning the youth of Bihar into labourers.
“Question paper leaks are also a regular affair in Bihar, benefitting the financially rich students,” alleged former Congress president.
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