Beware of 'suited-booted' friends of Modi: Rahul Gandhi in Bihar

Patna, Sep 19: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday cautioned the people of Bihar to be wary of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his "suited-booted friends" who may take away their land in the name of development. Addressing a rally in Bihar's West Champaran, Gandhi said the uprooted landless people would find no shelter in big cities as they would be treated as outsiders and would be driven away from there too. Referring to Bihari migrants being attacked as outsiders, he said: "If the BJP government comes here, people will come here in suit-boot and demand your land. Then you go to other states you would be asked to go back as you don't speak their language, you would be beaten up." He said if the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) comes to power in Patna, the suited-booted friends of the prime minister from New Delhi and Gujarat will come to grab the land of the people of Bihar. Assailing the prime minister for not providing employment as he had promised that two crore people will be provided employment every year, Gandhi asked the people assembled at the rally to raise their hand if any one of them had got a job as promised by Modi. "The government only made false promises, no change in unemployment, inflation and poverty," Gandhi said. To buttress his point that the Modi government failed to generate any employment, Gandhi said during the Lok Sabha campaign Modi had promised to revive sugar mills in Champaran but so far nothing has been done in this direction. Comparing the suited-booted culture of the Modi dispensation with the simple living of Mahatma Gandhi, he said: "Gandhi ji gave up the comforts of his life to serve the people."