Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Monday said the elections in Maharashtra are an election of ideologies and an election between 1-2 billionaires and the poor.
Rahul Gandhi said the elections in Maharashtra are an election of ideologies and an election between one-two billionaires and the poor. “The billionaires want the land of Mumbai to fall into their hands. The estimate is that ₹1 lakh crores will be given to 1 billionaire,” he added.
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The Congress leader further noted, “Our thought is that Maharashtra, the farmers of Maharashtra, the poor, the unemployed and the youth need help… We will donate funds ₹3000 free in the bank account of every woman, there will be bus trips for women and farmers, loans up to ₹3 lakh is waived, ₹7,000 per quintal for soybean… We are getting the caste census done in Telangana, Karnataka, and we will get it done in Maharashtra too.”
.over, he promised to abolish the 50 percent cap on reservations and conduct a caste-based survey in the country. “Caste enumeration is the biggest problem before us and we will get it done; it is our central pillar,” Gandhi said at a press conference in Mumbai.
The Congress leader said this ₹7 lakh crore projects, including Foxconn and Airbus, were shifted to Gujarat from Maharashtra. This led to youths in Maharashtra losing jobs, he added. The Maha Vikas Aghadi government will protect the interests of the people of Maharashtra, he said. The entire political machinery was twisted to benefit one person in Mumbai's Dharavi redevelopment plan, Gandhi said.
Mocking Prime Minister Modi's slogan 'Ek hai toh safe hai', Gandhi brought a safe to the press conference, took out a poster of Modi and industrialist Gautam Adani and said, “They are safe until they are together.”
The Assembly elections in Maharashtra are scheduled for November 20, with votes for all 288 constituencies being counted on November 23.