Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday said her party does not talk of eliminating haughtiness of people but for providing opportunities for their employment.
The Congress leader made the remark days after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, during an election campaign in a western Uttar Pradesh area, said that the khoon ki garmi (haughtiness) of Samajwadi Party and Rashtriya Lok Dal leaders will end after the state assembly results come in.
While talking to a man in Aligarh, Priyanka Gandhi quipped, People say someone has been talking of garmi nikalne ki charbi nikalne ki' (eliminating haughtiness).
But we (in Congress) are talking of 'bharti' (employment). A number of youths who are standing here are jobless. Around 12 lakh posts are lying vacant in the government," she added.
The UP Congress later in a tweet in Hindi, said, "This time vote for those who start 'bharti' (recruitments/employment) and reject 'charbi nikaalne wale' and 'garmi nikaalne wale' (people professing to end haughtiness, arrogance). Priyanka Gandhi was in Aligarh to campaign for the party candidates in Iglas and Khair assembly segments of the district.
The Congress general secretary also undertook door-to-door contact programmes in Aligarh.
Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on earlier on Saturday said India does not have a Prime Minister today but a king who believes that people should keep quiet when he takes a decision. Addressing a rally,
'Uttarakhandi Kisan Swabhiman Samvad', in Kichha here, Gandhi also accused Narendra Modi of leaving farmers on roads for a year amid a raging COVID-19 pandemic and said the Congress will never do that. He said his party will never shut its doors on farmers, labourers or the poor and it wants a partnership with them.
"If a Prime Minister does not work for all he cannot be a PM. By that token, Narendra Modi is not a PM," Gandhi said. "India does not have a PM today. It has a king who believes that when the king takes a decision, everyone else should keep quiet," he said.
Targeting Modi over the year-long farmers' agitation against the Centre's agri laws, the former Congress president said the Prime Minister left farmers on the road amid the pandemic.
