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On Gujarat Chief Minister's promise to empower women, Congress leader refers to Snoopgate

BS Reporter Patna
Last Updated : May 08 2014 | 8:15 PM IST
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi once again berated BJP's Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi saying that the Gujarat development model is actually 'Adani model'.  

"By taking 45,000 acre of fertile land of farmers, Modi gave it to the Adani company for a paltry sum of Rs 1 per sq metre," Gandhi alleged during an election meeting in Gopalganj district. "Due to largesses showered on Adani by Modi in Gujarat, the company's finance rose from Rs 3,000 crore to Rs 40,000 crore now, which is more than the budget of MGNREGA," he claimed.On the Gujarat Chief Minister's promise to empower women, the Congress leader referred to Snoopgate. "He spent all his shakti keeping track of the movement of a woman and now he is talking of providing power to women," Gandhi said.

Referring to Modi's claim that the Congress did nothing since Independence, Gandhi reminded him that that US President Barack Obama had said that his country feared only China and India.Listing MGNREGA, Right to Food law, land acquisition legislation, he said that the Congress sought a mandate to enact three more legislations.

These were free medicare including cost of medicine and provision for operation, right to a roof for poor and pension for the elderly. These three vital areas of concern, he said, he gathered after talks with rickshaw-pullers, coolies and other groups.

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First Published: May 08 2014 | 8:09 PM IST

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