Rahul Gandhi: PM Modi is anti-Dalit, so we are against him

2019 Lok Sabha elections are just months away and every party is playing their cards to win back the trust they have lost in last elections. In order to gain it again, every party is accusing the other with allegations and counter-allegations. Congress president Rahul Gandhi too accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of having an ‘anti-Dalit’ mindset and said that Congress will fight for everyone’s welfare.

Addressing a gathering at Jantar Mantar – protesting over the dilution of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 – Gandhi said, “The atrocities act was brought by the Congress and the party will protect it together with everybody.” Expressing his concern over rising number of lynching cases in the country, Gandhi said that Dalits are being attacked and crushed in those states, where BJP is in power.

He said, “We don’t want an India like this. We want an India in which there should be place for everybody, whether Dalits, poor, tribals or minorities… everybody should progress. We will fight for such an India.”

Attacking the Prime Minister, the Congress president said, “His thinking is anti-Dalit. All Dalits and people from the weaker sections know that the prime minister has no place for Dalits in his heart and mind and wants to crush Dalits. That is why we are standing against him.”

Earlier too, Rahul Gandhi had accused the BJP-led Union government for discrepancies in the alleged Rs 58,000 crore Rafale fighter jet deal. He had also accused Modi of benefiting businessman Anil Ambani in this deal. Though BJP has quashed the allegations, Congress is planning to make this their electoral issue for the upcoming elections.