Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Saturday stated kids wouldn’t be utilizing their cell phones for 12 hours a day had there been no unemployment within the nation.

Rahul Gandhi stated this whereas addressing a gathering in Sambhal as a part of his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra.

The Congress chief’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra reached Sambhal through Moradabad and Amroha, the place Congress and Samajwadi Party leaders welcomed Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra.

Speaking on the Chandausi intersection, Rahul Gandhi requested a man, “How many hours do you use your mobile?” to which he replied, “Twelve hours.”

Responding to this, Rahul Gandhi stated, “There is no employment in India, that is why you use your mobile phone for 12 hours. Did you know that the sons of big businessmen don’t watch Reels, they count money 24 hours (a day)?”

“If you get employment, you will watch Reels for half an hour and work for 12 hours,” the Congress chief stated.

Rahul Gandhi — who has claimed a number of instances through the yatra that individuals from backward lessons, Dalits and SC/ST communities don’t maintain senior positions — sharpened his assault on their lack of illustration.

He stated, “If we take out the list of employees of any company take out the list of owners. Not one backward class, Dalit owner will be found. Take out the list of owners of media houses, private colleges or judges of high courts. The same three to four per cent people (from upper castes) keep working in these positions.” Rahul Gandhi additionally claimed that work is being accomplished to get rid of small farmers and merchants. “You are being starved to death, you are being destroyed. Exam paper gets leaked because these people do not want to provide employment to the youth of India. They cannot provide employment to them,” the Congress chief claimed. Gandhi stated he undertook the 4,000-kilometre Bharat Jodo Yatra from Kanyakumari to Kashmir final 12 months as a result of the BJP and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh are spreading hatred in all corners of the nation.

Cornering the media, the Congress chief stated, “Whenever we present our views in the media, the media does not show it. Be it the hard work of workers, unemployment, inflation — these things are not going to be visible in the media.” “A shop of love has to open in the market of hatred,” Rahul Gandhi stated and added, “My work is to fight and eradicate hatred from the country.” Congress chief Priyanka Gandhi Vadra additionally lashed out on the BJP authorities in Uttar Pradesh, alleging that bulldozers are used to demolish houses of “innocent people” whereas the “guilty” escape unscathed. Priyanka Gandhi joined the yatra, which resumed its journey from Moradabad after a two-day halt for the march’s closing leg in Uttar Pradesh.

She will accompany her brother because the yatra passes by means of Bulandshahr, Aligarh, Hathras, Agra, concluding at Fatehpur Sikri on Sunday, the Congress stated. Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav is ready to hitch the yatra in Agra on Sunday, a improvement that comes after the events reached a seat-sharing association in Uttar Pradesh for the Lok Sabha polls.

Priyanka Gandhi was to take part within the yatra when it entered Uttar Pradesh in Chandauli however couldn’t due to in poor health well being and subsequent hospitalisation.

Addressing the general public in Moradabad, she stated, “When I came here in 2022, we had made a plan in the manifesto on how to stop repeated question paper leaks. It consisted of a job calendar, which would have the examination date and the date of appointment. We also spoke about making a commission to address all the injustices that had taken place.”

The Congress basic secretary additionally stated that unemployment and inflation are rising within the nation.

“The farmers were protesting yesterday. The farmers are protesting today also but the government is not listening to them. In Uttar Pradesh, bulldozers did not run on the homes of those who crushed farmers under their jeeps, tortured women and leaked question papers. In this government, the bulldozer is not moved on guilty but only on the homes of innocent people,” she stated.

Speaking concerning the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, she stated “nyay (justice)” was added to the identify as a result of injustice is being accomplished to ladies, youngsters and farmers of the nation.

She added that “until you bring about a change, your circumstances will not change”. Meanwhile, the Samajwadi Party’s Moradabad MP ST Hasan additionally participated within the yatra.

He stated, “At present, the country is going through a terrible situation. Till date, there has never been such a threat to communal harmony. Today, all Indians want that our love and the Ganga-Jamuni culture to remain intact.”

The yatra will enter Rajasthan and halt in Dholpur on Sunday.

The Congress has stated the yatra will go on a break from February 26 to March 1 to permit Rahul Gandhi fulfil his long-standing dedication to ship two lectures at his alma mater Cambridge University within the UK on February 27 and 28. He may even attend conferences in New Delhi throughout this era, it has stated.

The yatra will resume from Dholpur on March 2. It will then transfer into Madhya Pradesh and canopy Morena, Gwalior, Shivpuri, Guna, Shajapur and Ujjain amongst different districts. On March 5, Rahul Gandhi pays obeisance on the Shri Mahakaleshwar Temple in Ujjain.

He had provided prayers on the temple on November 29, 2022, throughout his Bharat Jodo Yatra.

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