Launching a blistering attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his “unkept promises”, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Monday said he was scripting his own downfall by alienating all sections and that farmers were now “abusing” and not criticising him.
He asked Congressmen to unite so that “when the downfall comes” it should be able to occupy the space that would be created by Modi's “exit”.
“Modi promised good days to farmers. Now farmers are committing suicide. Wherever I go in the country, the farmers are abusing Modiji. They are not criticising but abusing. Youths are not getting jobs and despite making promises thrice, OROP has not been given yet. Modi is damaging himself much more than we can together inflict on him. We have to make our place,” said the Congress scion, while inaugurating a convention of party leaders of Uttar Pradesh, the state where Congress has been relegated to <g data-gr-id="25">fourth</g> position after SP, BSP and BJP.
“Modiji is bound to go down but when he goes, we have to fill that space. You may keep on attacking <g data-gr-id="23">Modi</g> but Modi is attacking himself much more," he added.
Despite promises of putting Rs 15 lakh of black money parked in foreign banks in every citizen's account, nothing has been done so far, he said. Congress has not been able to regain power in the key Hindi heartland state, which will have assembly polls in 2017, since 1989. Giving a pep talk to Congress workers, Rahul invoked Steve Jobs' efforts that revived the fortunes of a floundering Apple.