Congress committing dacoity on rights of OBCs, SCs, STs: PM
“Wherever it (Congress) can do it, it will try to loot the claims of the SCs, STs and OBCs and give them to others,” said Modi.
Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday ridiculed the Union Budget 2017-18 calling it a "damp squib" that lacked vision.
"We were expecting fireworks, instead got a damp squib. The budget lacked vision," Rahul Gandhi told the media.
The Gandhi scion accused Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's Union Budget of having “no clear vision” as he attacked Narendra Modi government over railway safety.
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"The shock that this government gave through demonetisation, the expectation was the government will do something for the poor, farmers the unemployed. But there is no clear vision,” he said.
"Railways' fundamental problem is safety and this government has the worst record in that respect. But did they say anything on safety… Modi had also talked about (introducing) bullet trains, do we have one?" he asked.
While, the PM may have declared the budget to be pro farmers, Rahul Gandhi said the government failed to make any bog announcement for the farmers.
"The Finance Minister's job is to show a broad road map on issues like job creation, farmers' issues. But he said nothing on these fundamental things," he said.
"I do not see any impact. If they really wanted to make use of this opportunity they should have made some big announcements, especially for farmers," he added.
"Modi had promised of creating two crore jobs, but last year only 1.5 lakh jobs were created. This is shameful. Secondly the farmers are crying, they need waiver of their loans. This government talks so much of being pro-farmer but did nothing for them," he said further.
Gandhi though welcomed Jaitley's announcement of reducing cash donations to political parties from the current Rs 20,000 to Rs 2,000.
"It is good move. We will support whatever steps are taken for cleansing political funding."
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