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This Article is From Sep 17, 2013

Rahul Gandhi addresses rally in Rajasthan: Highlights

Rahul Gandhi addresses a rally in Baran, Rajasthan

Baran: Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi addresses a rally in Baran, Rajasthan. Following are the highlights:

  • I welcome you all, especially those who are standing on the terraces.
  • Today in politics we have two kinds of thinking - one of the Congress and the other of the opposition
  • We say that India needs infrastructure. So does the Opposition.
  • We also raise the question of who benefits from the infrastructure - the person using the roads should have enough to eat.
  • We say the poorest in India should have the biggest dream.
  • The daily wage earner should look at an aeroplane and dream that his son pilots it someday
  • To the women who have gathered here, I want you to have the world's biggest dreams for your children, otherwise I have no interest in politics. If we don't let you dream, India can't progress.
  • When you want to take someone's land away that comes easily, but when people have to be fed, they ask where the money will come from After Food Security Bill, our new slogan: pet bhar ke roti kayenge, Congress party ko layenge.
  • Before the Land Acquisition Bill, anywhere in India, the government could have acquired the lands of the poor.
  • The farmers suffered, toiled over their land and one day someone took it away from them.
  • We brought in the Land Acquisition Bill to let the farmers' sons dream big, to respect your blood and sweat.
  • Disease is the greatest reason of poverty. In Rajasthan, a daily wage earner gets free medicines.
  • This will be implemented across the country.
  • The Opposition said about the MNREGA, Food Security Bill, Land Acquisition Bill - that it can't be done. They lost the elections and then tried to stall Parliament.
  • But they will not be able to stop us - we will continue to work for you.
  • I inaugurated a power plant today and told them - the common man doesn't understand MegaWatts. I was told that Rajasthan today generates thrice the electricity it did 10 years ago.
  • Whatever we have said, we've delivered - that is the difference between us and them (the Opposition).
  • This is the country of young people and in this country most of the young people are  poor. They have big dreams.
  • Until someone does not give them right to food, to job their dreams will not be fulfilled. We will fulfill your dreams.
  • The government has to function not only in Delhi and Jaipur but at the local level.
  • You must be the masters of your own future, you must take this country forward.





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