Hindutvawadi bathes alone in Ganga, says Rahul in Amethi, targeting PM Modi

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UP Elections 2022: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday arrived in his former bastion Amethi. This is his first visit to Amethi in 2.5 years after losing the Lok Sabha election from the seat in 2019.

While addressing party workers in Amethi's Jagdishpur, he said, "I came into politics in 2004. Amethi was the city where I contested my first election. People of Amethi have taught me a lot about politics. You have shown me the way to politics and I want to thank each and everyone from Amethi."

Taking to Twitter, Rahul Gandhi said, "Every street of #Amethi is the same even today - only in the eyes of the public now there is resentment for the government. There is still a place in the hearts even today- We are still one today  Against injustice!" 

The Wayanad MP, while hitting out at the Centre said, "You are aware of the situation today. Unemployment and inflation are the biggest questions that neither the CM nor PM will answer. PM was taking a dip in Ganga a few days back but won't talk about unemployment. I'll tell you why the youth is deprived of employment."

"Middle-class people and the poor were badly affected by some of the decisions taken by the PM, which also resulted in large scale unemployment. Demonetization, wrongly implicated GST, no help during the Covid crisis are the major reasons for unemployment in India," he further said.

"A 'Hindutvavadi' bathes alone in Ganga, while a Hindu bathes with crores of people...Narendra Modi says he is a Hindu, but when did he protect truth?...He asked people to bang thalis to get rid of COVID...Hindu or Hindutvadi? For the first time I saw just one person taking bath in Ganga, removed Yogi Ji, sidelined Rajnath Singh....Remember when Narendra ji was young he fought with a crocodile, I thought he didn't know swimming...struggling with his hands..."

Rahul Gandhi, along with Congress general secretary and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and state party chief Ajay Kumar Lallu, participated in a 6 km-long padyatra (foot march) from Ramlila ground in Jagdishpur to Harimau. 

Rahul Gandhi had represented Amethi, a bastion of the Nehru-Gandhi family, for 15 years in Lok Sabha. The Congress leader fought from two constituencies in 2019 and was defeated in Amethi but won from Wayanad in Kerala.

In the 2017 Assembly elections, the BJP won a landslide victory winning 312 Assembly seats. The party secured a 39.67 per cent vote share in the elections for 403-member Assembly. Samajwadi Party (SP) bagged 47 seats, BSP won 19 while Congress could manage to win only seven seats.

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