Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi attacked the BJP at an election rally in Chhittorgarh in Rajasthan on Tuesday.
On one side in the Congress, and on other is the Opposition. But there is big difference in their thinking. We say this country is everyone's - the rich, the poor, the businessman, the dalit. This country is everyone's.
And they say the focus should be on select people. They say if a government has to run, it will run for industrialists.
If you listen to their speeches, you will hear about roads, airports and infrastructure. But you won't hear about human beings, about poor people.
They think if you lay roads, lay railways lines, built airports, the country will change. And we say: Do lay roads and built airports, but I say: Also help the poor people who can one day get on those airplanes.
We don't need a Hindustan where a poor man thinks whether his son or grandson will be able to ever get on that plane.
That's why we talk about rights. We gave you RTI. We talk about giving you power.
We have built more infrastructure than the NDA.
When I got down here, there was a shining airport. Who made it? The Congress party. But we also work for the poor.
What is a labourer's life? He works for two-three days, he falls ill. He takes medicines, he works again.
And Gehlot-ji gave them free medicine across Rajasthan.
People in the BJP say the medicine is poison. But for poor people, this not poison. Big people take branded medicines, not generic medicines.
Rich people travel in Mercedes and when they see people on a bus, they think why they are on the bus?
I often meet people from the BJP in parliament. I asked them why they were against MNREGA and the food security bill? They said when you give someone food for free and medicines, you spoil the person.
We think differently. We say if a man is stuck in poverty, there is wall in front of him. And to remove this wall, we must help him.
But the BJP wants the poor to smash the wall himself. But we want to help the poor break the wall.
We have started making the Delhi-Mumbai railway corridor and this cement centre will be a world centre.
When computers came to Bangalore, opposition made jokes. We should talk about farmers, they said. Rajiv Gandhi-ji said phones and computers will benefit farmers too. And when their use spread, they took the claim for it.
These people don't think about tomorrow, they think about today. They don't care about poor; they make people fight one another. They make people of Bombay fight the people of Uttar Pradesh.
They don't think if they make people fight, what will be the future.
We want all to walk together.
When Congress wins elections, we will see people from the grassroots, not people who travel in planes.
There will be industrialization, there will be factories. Some days ago, I talked to the people making the corridor and they said land prices have gone up and people with arid and dry land will benefit the most.
On one side in the Congress, and on other is the Opposition. But there is big difference in their thinking. We say this country is everyone's - the rich, the poor, the businessman, the dalit. This country is everyone's.
And they say the focus should be on select people. They say if a government has to run, it will run for industrialists.
If you listen to their speeches, you will hear about roads, airports and infrastructure. But you won't hear about human beings, about poor people.
They think if you lay roads, lay railways lines, built airports, the country will change. And we say: Do lay roads and built airports, but I say: Also help the poor people who can one day get on those airplanes.
We don't need a Hindustan where a poor man thinks whether his son or grandson will be able to ever get on that plane.
That's why we talk about rights. We gave you RTI. We talk about giving you power.
We have built more infrastructure than the NDA.
When I got down here, there was a shining airport. Who made it? The Congress party. But we also work for the poor.
What is a labourer's life? He works for two-three days, he falls ill. He takes medicines, he works again.
And Gehlot-ji gave them free medicine across Rajasthan.
People in the BJP say the medicine is poison. But for poor people, this not poison. Big people take branded medicines, not generic medicines.
Rich people travel in Mercedes and when they see people on a bus, they think why they are on the bus?
I often meet people from the BJP in parliament. I asked them why they were against MNREGA and the food security bill? They said when you give someone food for free and medicines, you spoil the person.
We think differently. We say if a man is stuck in poverty, there is wall in front of him. And to remove this wall, we must help him.
But the BJP wants the poor to smash the wall himself. But we want to help the poor break the wall.
We have started making the Delhi-Mumbai railway corridor and this cement centre will be a world centre.
When computers came to Bangalore, opposition made jokes. We should talk about farmers, they said. Rajiv Gandhi-ji said phones and computers will benefit farmers too. And when their use spread, they took the claim for it.
These people don't think about tomorrow, they think about today. They don't care about poor; they make people fight one another. They make people of Bombay fight the people of Uttar Pradesh.
They don't think if they make people fight, what will be the future.
We want all to walk together.
When Congress wins elections, we will see people from the grassroots, not people who travel in planes.
There will be industrialization, there will be factories. Some days ago, I talked to the people making the corridor and they said land prices have gone up and people with arid and dry land will benefit the most.
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