Congress chief Kharge talks of NYAY scheme
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said the OBCs, Dalits and tribals do not have enough representation in many sectors and reiterated that a caste census will be conducted if the Opposition’s INDIA alliance came to power, while party chief Mallikarjun Kharge promised implementation of the NYAY scheme to empower women and the poor. The two leaders were speaking at the Congress’s 139th foundation day rally — titled `Hain Taiyyar Hum’ (we are ready) — in Nagpur city which houses the headquarters of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), and sounded the bugle for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Nagpur has two ideologies, one of Dr B R Ambedkar which is progressive and the other of the RSS which is “destroying the nation”, Kharge said. Notably, the city is also home to the Deekshabhoomi where Ambedkar converted to Buddhismalong with his followers.
Senior party leader Sonia Gandhi and general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra did not attend the rally.
Gandhi attacked the BJP and RSS, accusing them of taking the country back to the pre-independence era of slavery, and said the BJPs ideology is the ideology of “RajaMaharajas” (kings) who do not listen to anyone and where an order comes from the top and everybody
has to follow it.
