“India’s economy is growing, but wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few people, and the unemployment challenge persists,” Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Saturday.
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In an interaction with some Harvard students, he was asked about India’s economic growth over the past ten years.
In response, the conference president said, “When you talk about economic development, you have to ask the question, in whose interest is this economic development?”
“The question to ask is, what is the nature of that growth and who benefits from it. Next to India’s growth number, you have India’s unemployment number. So India is growing, but the way it grows is by concentrating too much wealth on too few the people”.
Gandhi also said: “We are operating on a debt model, and we are no longer producing. We have two or three companies that are pretty much full-fledged businesses.”
He added that the real challenge in India is how to create a productive economy capable of providing job opportunities for large numbers of people.
He said: “We have Mr. Adani, and everyone knows that he is directly linked to the prime minister. He owns all our ports, airports and infrastructure! With this kind of focus, you will get growth, but you will not get any distribution.” .
When asked why this did not translate into an electoral result or mobilization of people, Gandhi said there was huge mobilization, but there was a need for “infrastructure to fight elections.”
“You need a fair media, a fair legal system, a fair election commission, access to finance, and neutral institutions. Imagine a United States where the IRS and the FBI work, full time, to destroy the lives of the opposition. So this is the model,” he said. Which we are in. I didn’t walk 4000 km because I like to walk 4000 km. “I walked 4,000 kilometers because there was no other way to deliver our message,” he said, referring to his message.Bharat Guddu Yatra.
“Even my social media is completely blocked. I have put in a 24/7 shadow ban… My Twitter is under control, my YouTube is under control and it’s not just me, the entire opposition. I don’t think India is a free and fair democratic administration yet.” now…”.
The Congress leader also accused the BJP-led central government of not treating India as a union of states, but as a country with “one ideology, one religion and one language”.
“So they are killing negotiations, trying to take over institutions. So this is the real political battle in India now,” he added.
“We feel that if you end the negotiations in India, the Indian union conversation will collapse, and India will tear itself apart. So you can see that Manipur is burning, you can see Jammu and Kashmir burning. And you can see that Tamil Nadu has a problem….,” he said. He said.
He said that a “large-scale civil war” was raging in Manipur.
(With inputs from PTI.)