Gandhi said Gujarat was developed due to the efforts of its women, small businessmen and traders, STs and youth and Congress believed in empowering these sections of society while BJP believed in “dividing people”.
He also underscored Congress' pro-modern credentials by recalling that it was the then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi who ushered in computers in India and said BJP led by its senior leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee, who later became PM, vehemently opposed it.
“Rajiv Gandhi spoke about computers. The biggest BJP leader who later became prime minister said India does not need it. It will destroy farmers... Now they (BJP) claim they brought telecom revolution. They have no vision. They have no idea about what India needs,” he said.
On the issue of one rank one pension, Gandhi said the UPA government has fulfilled the long pending demand of armed forces.
“Armed forces were the biggest heroes in the rescue operations during the last year's flash floods in Uttarakhand,” he said.
