Fight today is between two ideologies: Rahul Gandhi

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday targeted the BJP saying while one ideology gives benefits to a select few another is the voice of the people farmers and labourersAs the Bharat Jodo Yatra led by him crossed over into Haryana from Rajasthan this morning Gandhi also said that inflation and unemployment are the biggest issues affecting the countryAddressing a gathering in the district where a large number of people had turned up braving the morning chill Gandhi said the fight between two ideologies in this country was not a new one and has been going on for thousands of yearsOn BJP leaders questioning the need to undertake the the Kanyakumari to Kashmir yatra Gandhi said he was opening a shop of love in the market of hate through the Bharat Jodo YatraWhen these people go out to spread hatred in this country people of our ideology go out to spread love and affection he saidThis is not a new fight dont think that this fight is of today of 21st century this fight is thousands of years old and in two ideologies fight and have been fightingOne ideology which gives and gave benefits to select few and second ideology is the voice of people peoples pain farmers voice labourers voice he saidAlso Read Consider suspending Bharat Jodo Yatra if Covid protocols cannot be followed Union health minister to Rahul GandhiThis fight has been going on will go on but in this fight the Congress has a role and we all have a role This is why we started this Yatra the Congress leader saidThe yatra was welcomed in Haryana by senior leaders including former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda senior leader Randeep Singh Surjewala Kumari Selja Deepender Singh Hooda state party chief Udai Bhan among othersGandhi said he learnt a lot through this Yatra which probably one does not learn sitting in cars aeroplanes and helicoptersGandhi said these days leaders have a habit and he was talking about all parties including the Congress BJP and Samajwadi Party Nowadays there is a gulf between leaders and the public Leaders think there is no need to listen to people and they give lengthy speeches for hours this Yatra has attempted to change thatWe walk daily for 67 hours and all leaders listen to the voice of everyone including farmers labourers youth mothers daughters small shopkeepers small and medium businesses and after this we give a 15minute speech he saidGandhi said that he was happy to note that Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot his cabinet ministers and other party leaders from the state will walk at least 15 km once a month in the State for a better understanding of peoples problems and redress their grievancesHe said he will suggest to the Congress president that wherever the partys government is there the ministers and MLAs there need to undertake a walk for a day in a month on similar linesGandhi said this yatra is definitely against hatred but there are are two big issues which are affecting the country the mostThe biggest of them is unemployment thousands of youth came to me somebody has done engineering somebody wanted to be a doctor somebody wanted to work in judiciary he said while adding highly educated youth were driving taxis and doing labour worksAlso Read Im opening shop of love in their market of hatred Rahul GandhiHe alleged that only five to seven billionaires can do whatever they feel like whereas small and middle businesses have been sidelinedFive to seven people do whatever they want to do they are arabpatis having crore of debt They do whatever business they want to do be it infrastructure port airport agriculture Whereas small and middle business have been sidelined he saidThe Congress leader said he has maintained in his speeches that demonetisation and GST are not policies but weapons to eliminate small and medium tradersThe target is to handover the countrys wealth to threefour people The result is that the country was unable to give jobs to its youth he saidAnother issue is inflation You may be remembering that when the UPA government was in power cooking gas cylinder was available for Rs 400 and today it is available at Rs 1200 Petrol was available at Rs 60 per litre and now it is at Rs 107 a litreWherever Modi ji and his leaders go they used to raise the issue of inflation But today they do not speak about inflation he saidIn his speech Gandhi said someone referred to him as desh ka tapasvi ascetic of the countryI have not done anything big crores of tapasvis ascetic they work in fields since early morning labourers who do tough jobs he saidSo we havent done any big thing going from Kanyakumari to Kashmir he saidNoting that the yatra started from Kanyakumari he said Later we will unfurl the national flag in Srinagar and no power can stop this Yatra The reason for this is that yatra is not of the Congress it is of poor people labourers and small shopkeepers unemployed youthGandhi told the gathering that they will not see any fatigue on his face in this yatra or that of others who are part of itWe are not walking with our strength but with your love and strength Lets walk on the roads of Haryana for three days now and listen to hear the pain of people of Haryana he saidThe Yatra started from Kanyakumari on September 7 and covered Tamil Nadu Kerala Andhra Pradesh Karnataka Telangana Maharashtra Madhya Pradesh and RajasthanThe first phase of Bharat Jodo Yatra in Haryana will conclude on December 23 as it will also pass from Gurugram and Faridabad districts In the second phase the yatra will reenter Haryana from Uttar Pradesh at Sanoli Khurd in Panipat district on January 6This story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever