He also said Finance Minister Arun Jaitley failed to respond to a "critical question" on the discrepancy in the price a farmer gets for his produce and at which it is sold in the market.
"The farmer toils endlessly and gets a minimum support price of Rs 50. Then he goes to the market and buys his own dal for Rs 200 per kg.
"My question was that if you (government) want to rectify this, you can do it easily. You increase the supply and the price goes down. You are not doing this to help a selected few. But Finance Minister Arun Jaitley did not reply to this question in his half-an-hour reply," Gandhi told reporters outside Parliament House.
Jaitley had responded to the discussion on price rise.
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Earlier in the Lok Sabha, Gandhi attacked the Prime Minister over price rise, saying after coming to power Narendra Modi has not said anything on the issue and demanded that he give a date by when the prices of pulses will come down.
Rahul traced Congress' history of fighting the freedom
struggle and said, "Congress helped people understand the meaning of Swaraj and independence. Congress helps fight fear."
"I would first want to talk about what is relationship of people of the country with Congress party. It is that of sharing pain and of sharing emotions. This idea says that you are not alone. They gave a name to that idea and called it Congress," the party Vice President said.
He said the note ban decision has robbed the poor people of their money, which is intended to be given to the rich of the country.
He said it is the poor, the farmers, labourers, the middle class and the common people who are suffering the most.
There has been a growing demand within the party for the Gandhi scion to take over reins of the party from his mother Sonia Gandhi as Congress president.
The CWC, the party's highest decision-making body, had also verbally resolved and urged Sonia Gandhi to elevate Rahul to the top post recently.
A large number of senior Congress leaders were present on the occasion.