Shri Rahul Gandhi has said that when one’s intentions are clear, there is no need to make tall promises. Promises are made by those who have no intention of doing any work. Addressing a meeting in Hardoi on Tuesday, Shri Gandhi said that when the Congress Party formed government in 2004, the party did not make 20‐25 promises. “We formed a government for the common man and made schemes and policies that you wanted, after asking you,” said Shri Gandhi. He said that he had mostly received his education abroad but the amount of knowledge and information that he received from the common man in India was much more than what the professors abroad had taught him. He said that whatever knowledge he got from the common man, he passed it on to the people around him. Shri Gandhi further said that development gets halted when leaders stop meeting the common people and get distanced. He said that NDA leaders would have never given the India Shining slogan if they had been interacting with the common man. “In the past five years, has anyone seen Mayawati or Mulayam Singh visiting a village? It is the duty of the leaders to reach out to people and listen to their woes. When drought hit Bundelkhand, I went there 10‐15 times and the work that the state government should have done, was done by the centre. I took a delegation to the Prime Minister who took two minutes to sanction a package of Rs 8000 crore for the region. This money could have changed Bundelkhand forever but this money never reached the people. We sent tractors for the farmers but the minister gave them to his children,” he said.
Mounting an attack on Mulayam Singh Yadav, he said, “Mulayam Singh says he will turn Bundelkhand into Israel. The people of Bundelkhand want Bundelkhand and not Israel.” Talking about weavers, Shri Gandhi said that when the weavers related their problems to him, he took them to the Prime Minister and got a weavers’ package sanctioned promptly. The package includes loan waiver scheme, subsidy on thread and weaver credit card.
“The weavers told us that the money should be sent directly into their accounts or else the elephant in Lucknow would eat it all up and we made arrangements for this too,” he said. Shri Gandhi said that UP had its own strength which was being wasted and the people were not being given dignity. The day its people realize this strength, UP will stand up on its feet. He said, “I have not come here to win elections. I will stay there till UP begins to change. I do not have a magic wand but I can take your voice to the people above me and stand with you.”
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