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Rajasthan polls: Opposition parties are anti-poor, says Rahul Gandhi

Chittorgarh: Differentiating Congress from rest of the parties, Congress Vice president today termed opposition parties as anti-poor."There is a major difference between our thinking and the opposition," Gandhi told an election rally here attended by

"They think that development of roads, rail lines and airports will change the country... We also want to develop infrastructure but we want the poor to be part of this growth," Gandhi said.

"In fact," he added, "we did more infrastructure development then the NDA (National Democratic Alliance) did during its regime."

His reference was to the Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA regime that ruled India from 1998 to 2004.