New Delhi, July 29 :
Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi on Monday made a scathing attack on the BJP, saying that the Narendra Modi government has trapped the country in ‘Padmavyuh’ like ‘Chakravyuh’ and the Congress and the Opposition alliance will break this and give the people of the country their rights.
Participating in the discussion on the Union Budget 2024-25, Gandhi said, “Like the Chakravyuh of Mahabharat that killed Abhimanyu, another name of Chakravyuh is Padmavyuh, which is in the shape of a lotus flower. This Chakravyuh has been prepared in the 21st century. What happened with Abhimanyu is being done with India and they are the youth, farmers, women, small and mediums businesses”.
He said, “The Chakravyuh that has captured India has three forces behind it. First is the idea of monopoly capital, the second element is the institutions, agencies such as CBI, ED, Income Tax department of this nation and the third is the political executive”.
The Congress leader said, “These three together are at the heart of the Chakravyuh, and they have devastated this country. My expectation was that this budget would weaken the power of this Chakravyuh. It would help the farmers of the country, the youth, labourers, and small businesses of the country. But what I have seen is that, the sole aim of this budget is to strengthen this framework of big businesses, monopoly, framework of political monopoly that destroys the democratic structure and finally the framework of the deep state or the agencies”.
The Raebareli MP while calling the internship programme in the Budget as a joke, said, that this programme would be in the top 500 companies and 99 percent of the youth have nothing to do with this program.
“This programme is like first you break their legs and then apply bandage on it. The truth is that you have created a maze of unemployment and paper leak. Paper leak is the biggest issue for the youth today, but the Finance Minister did not mention a single word on it in the budget. On the contrary, you have reduced the budget for education,” Rahul alleged.
He also alleged that the government had trapped the brave soldiers of the Army in this ‘Chakravyuh’ by bringing in the Agnipath scheme.
During the speech, the house also witnessed a ruckus over Rahul Gandhi’s speech mentioning some names, which was objected by Speaker Om Birla who stated that the Congress deputy leader had himself written to him saying that names of those not present in the house should not be named.
Meanwhile, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju while intervening during the speech, accused that the LoP was not following the rule of the House.
“The Leader of Opposition is downgrading the image of the House. You challenge the Speaker. You don’t follow rules. The House functions as per the rules,” Rijiju said.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh while responding to the issue on Agnipath scheme said, “Security is a sensitive issue. But some misconception is being spread about Agnipath scheme. I will give a statement in the House, whenever the Chair will order and I will speak everything about the scheme in detail”.
