Modi's 70-year rant has an expiry date: Priyanka Gandhi

MIRZAPUR: Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday targeted BJP's continued criticism of Congress governments not doing anything in 70 years, saying that the rant has an expiry date and cannot go on and on. She instead asked the BJP to show what they have done in the past five years.


Speaking to reporters in Bhadohi , Priyanka attacked the BJP for questioning the performance of Congress in 70 years.

"This 'what they did in last 70 years' has an expiry date," she said.

Later, she addressed a rally at Sindhora ghat by the Ganga in Mirzapur . Used to hearing that she resembles her grandmother Indira Gandhi, Priyanka said, "People say I look like my dadiji (grandmother). There is so much love for her, why? It is because she worked for all of you selflessly all her life."

She continued, “You have been waiting for long. It is not because of any of my own qualities, but because you are hopeful. You have hope that your problems will be heard and solved and that is why I am here.” Asking people to vote ‘selfishly’ in the upcoming elections choosing between a side of politics benefiting only rich and other which is there to work for the poor.

“The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its leaders only mislead people when they scream that no work was done in 70 years. What they don’t answer is what have they done in the last five years,” she said.

“It is on you now to decide if you want a party that wants brothers to fight among themselves or you want computer education, employment, safety for your women and work for your farmers. Understand the ideology and vote for your ‘swarth’ (selfish),” she continued. After taking a boat from Bathauli ghat in Mirzapur, Priyanka reached Sindhora Ghat late in the evening, even as curious Congress party supporters and workers stood in ankle deep cold water at the ghat waiting for her.

Referring to the many stops she made at various villages on the way and all through her day in Bhadohi and Mirzapur, she said, “No youngster I met in the day told me that they had a job. Everyone I met said they had no job. Even if there was a shop, people said there was no livelihood and profit. The weavers told me the same and so did the brassware workers that their business had gone down by 50%. Your brass industry here is depending on Chinese goods now. People have told me their business has gone down drastically in the past five years.”