Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra intensified her attack on the BJP-led Central government during her campaign on Tuesday for the Wayanad by-election, accusing it of neglecting the rehabilitation efforts for landslide-affected areas in the hill district.
Slamming the Modi government for failing to provide financial aid to the region as promised, she called it the Centre's disregard for people’s plight.
The Congress leader, speaking at a corner meeting at Eengapuzha here, said that policies by the Modi government always favour five to six business friends of the prime minister and do not benefit the people.
Referring to the Wayanad landslides, she said that the PM came to the district, visited the affected places and people and promised them all kinds of help. However, months later, the Central government did not provide any funds for the rehabilitation of the affected people, she claimed.
Priyanka, who marks her electoral debut in this bypoll, is contesting against the LDF's veteran leader Sathyan Mokeri, a former MLA, and the BJP's Navya Haridas, a two-time councillor of the Kozhikode Corporation.
The by-election was necessitated after Rahul Gandhi vacated the seat following his victory in the Rai Bareli constituency in the recent parliamentary elections. The by-election will be held on November 13.
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