Senior Congress leader and Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi has more often than not added miseries for the grand old party with his callous and tongue-in-cheek remarks. Incidentally, he has done the same in the ongoing Budget session of the Parliament, when he took down his party’s previous government for its abject failure on the plank of job creation. He castigated the UPA regime for failing miserably on the unemployment issue. Strikingly, while political accusations, and dubbing opponent as a complete failure on every issue has been a norm, in the current setup of politics of bluff and bluster which is often devoided with facts. However, in a bid to target BJP-led NDA government, the Gandhi scion charged Congress-led previous UPA regime as a “failure” on Unemployment.
He said, “Even though we have grown, we’ve grown fast, growing slightly slower now, but we are growing. A universal problem that we have faced is that we have not been able to tackle the problem of unemployment. Neither the UPA govt nor today’s NDA government has given a clear-cut answer to the youth of this country about employment.”
#WATCH | Lok Sabha LoP Rahul Gandhi says, “…Even though we have grown, we’ve grown fast, growing slightly slower now but we are growing. A universal problem that we have faced is that we have not been able to tackle the problem of unemployment. Neither the UPA govt nor today’s… pic.twitter.com/RIzjEusYv1
— ANI (@ANI) February 3, 2025
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Not just at the rhetoric level, the BJP, its allies, and their ecosystem as well as key I.N.D.I. alliance leaders like Mamata Banerjee has often dubbed Rahul Gandhi as a liability for the Congres and opposition parties and an asset for the BJP, especially for providing full tosses for the saffron party to score points on their core poll planks, be it, Hindutva, Nationalism, crusade against Corruption.
Incidentally, once Rahul Gandhi castigated all previous Congress regimes and labelled the ecosystem, even during the Congress as well as UPA regimes, anti-Dalit, anti-poor. He had infamously said, “The system is heavily aligned against the lower castes. I know the system from inside as my grandmother and father were prime minister and later I used to visit the PM’s house when Manmohan Singh lived there.”
He further asserted that the country’s 90% population including the Dalits, OBCs, tribal communities and the minorities does not have representation in the country’s narrative and power structure.