“Of course, this is not a new development. The Prime Minister has spent his whole career in politics helping out his billionaire friends,” the Congress leader alleged citing examples in this regard.
He alleged that the government ensured that six out of six airports being privatised went to Adani, allowed two companies to take over 90 per cent of India’s airline market and wrote off Rs 14. 5 lakh crore of bad loans by corporates.
“Meanwhile, India’s poor get their homes demolished under the ‘bulldozer raj’ and farmers have to face bullets for demanding adequate MSP for their crops,” Ramesh alleged.
He said India’s rail passengers, overwhelmingly poor and middle class, “face 10 per cent annual ticket price hikes, see their sleeper seats removed to make way for AC 1st class seats, and have Rs 3,700 crore in senior concessions snatched away from them”.
“The priorities are clear: ‘Suit-boot-loot-jhoot’,” he alleged, using the hashtag “#GareebParVaarPoonjipatiSarkar”.
Industrialist Mukesh Ambani’s son is getting married in Jamnagar and several guests from abroad are landing there.
