‘Will destroy fake barrier of 50% quota cap’: Rahul Gandhi bats for Dalits, OBCs in Bihar | India News

NEW DELHI: Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Monday latched on to the worldwide inventory market crash to mock the NDA-led Bihar authorities over the state’s improvement.
While talking throughout the Samvidhan Suraksha Sammelan in Patna, the chief of opposition in the Lok Sabha claimed that lower than one per cent of folks in Bihar had invested in the inventory market, just about saving them from the losses.
“The US president has led to a tumble in the stock market. Less than 1% of the people here have their money invested in the stock market, which means the stock market is not a field for you,” the Congress chief stated.
“Unlimited money is made in it, but you don’t get the benefit of it,” he added.
During the occasion, Rahul additionally alleged that individuals from weaker sections of society are being handled as second-class residents. He additional vowed to demolish the “fake barriers” of the 50 % cap on reservations.
“Congress will conduct X-ray of India through caste census for benefit of socially backward classes,” Rahul stated.
“Ambedkar ji fought for Dalits. He understood the pain and the truth of the Dalits. And he fought for that truth. That is why Mahatma Gandhi’s biography is named ‘My Experiments with Truth’, not ‘My Experiments with Lies’, something that PM Modi may write. The fight is for the truth. Speaking the truth is tough in India. The entire nation knows that even huge leaders are not able to speak the truth. But what is the example given by Gautam Buddha, Ambedkar ji and Gandhiji? We don’t have to be afraid and put the truth in front of the nation. The ideology of Phule ji, Ambedkar ji and Gandhiji is in your and my blood and no one can remove it,” he added.
Meanwhile, the Congress chief accompanied by youth chief Kanhaiya Kumar, started the much-publicized padayatra, which noticed giant crowds and enthusiastic youth participation.
The Raebareli MP shared a minute-long video message on X on Sunday, urging the youth of Bihar to affix him in the march in Begusarai sporting “white T-shirts.”
“Our aim is to draw the attention of the world to the plight of Bihar’s youth, who find government jobs getting scarce day by day and privatization bringing no benefits. Let us bring the government in the state under pressure and change it,” he stated in the video.
The marketing campaign is geared toward highlighting points of unemployment and compelled migration and varieties half of the Congress’s broader effort to regain political floor in Bihar forward of the 2025 Assembly elections.
This comes because the state faces a excessive stakes legislative meeting election for all 243 constituencies in October or November this 12 months. The final meeting elections had been held in October-November 2020.