Congress president Rahul Gandhi today flayed the Modi government for its decision to privatise some public sector units and vowed that his party would protect them.
Gandhi held several roadshows here to go give a final push to his party's prospects in the May 12 assembly polls.
The congress president, who began the day with a visit to 'Dodda Ganapathi' temple at Basavanagudi here, held several corner meetings in the city, a day before the campaign for the polls ends.
He said "When the institutions like HAL, BHEL, BEML and BEL were set up, the world laughed at India.
People said such factories were not needed in India but Bengaluru showed to the world what it can do. When roads are constructed BHEL is required, while HAL is required for building fighter planes."
He, however, rued that the present government at the Centre wants to "divest the gems like HAL, BEML and BHEL."
Gandhi said the government wants to take away contract of assembling the Rafale fighter plane from HAL to "Modi's friend who has a debt of Rs 45,000 crore."
However, Gandhi said, the prime minister gave the contract of building the plane to "his friend who never made any planes."
He said "We will raise in parliament. We will get their reply. I promise you that we will protect HAL, BEL, BHEL and HAL."
He flayed the prime minister for doing "contrary to his resolve to end corruption."
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