Thakur takes dig at Rahul Gandhi at BJP Yuva Jagruti Samavesha

Mangalore, May 22: Congress' youth icon Rahul Gandhi is least bothered about the development of the country and it shows in his absence in parliamentary proceedings, said Anurag Thakur, National President, BJP Yuva Morcha.

Addressing the gathering at a youth convention organized by the state unit of the BJP Yuva Morcha in Mangalore on Tuesday, Mr. Thakur took continuous digs at Rahul Gandhi, the Congress poster boy. “Rahul Gandhi hardly comes to the Parliament. Aae bhi toh peeche baith ke gappe maarte rehte hain (Even if he does, he sits in the back benches and would be busy chit-chatting). Today, the UPA has completed three years of its second term. Congress in its long tenure has only looted the country. Right from the time of Jawaharlal Nehru to Manmohan Singh, their tenure has been marred with scandals. When Manmohan Singh was chosen Prime Minister, people said that a clean man had been given the post. But his government has broken the record of all past scams”, Mr. Thakur said.

Stating further that scams pertaining to 2G and Commonwealth Games reveal how corrupt Congress is, Mr. Thakur, who is also the joint secretary of the BCCI and President of the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Academy, said that his cricket stadium at Dharmasala “cost just Rs. 60 crore to be built but Suresh Kalmadi needed RS.900 crore to renovate a stadium for Commonwealth Games”.

The BJP Yuva Morcha National President said that during the five year term of NDA government, 62 million jobs had been created in contrary to the 20 lakh jobs created by UPA.

Recalling the struggle that he and other BJP Yuva Morcha members pursued during the national flag hoisting movement at Lal Chowk in Kashmir, Mr. Thakur congratulated the Karnataka Yuva Morcha members for their active participation. BJP was the only party in the country to oppose the scrapping of AFSPA law in Kashmir, he added.

Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda in his address said that youth must take up the responsibility of supervising and keeping track of the money being set aside by the government in its budget for various projects. He revealed on the occasion that about Rs. 4.5 thousand crores had been provided in the budget for youth under various projects.

Stating that Congress has been inefficient in handling terrorism in the country, Mr. Gowda said that it has been playing vote bank politics. “The Congress is feeding biryani to a terrorist like Kasab with the tax payer's money”, he said.

Chakravarti Soolibele was the main speaker. Minister Jagadish Shettar also spoke. Anurag Thakur was presented with a memento and a portrait of Basavanna by the state Yuva Morcha members on the occasion.

Navya R Shetty, the state SSLC topper from Bantwal, was felicitated by Chief Minister D V Sadananda Gowda.

K S Eshwarappa, State BJP President, R Ashok, State Home Minister, Vishweshwara Hegde Kageri, State Education Minister, Narayanaswamy, State Social Welfare Minister, S A Ramdas, Medical Education Minister, Yogish Bhat, Deputy Speaker, Karnataka Assembly, Nalin Kumar Kateel, MP, C T Ravi, Spokesperson, BJP, Padmanabha Kottary, President, BJP, DK, were present among others.