Rahul with youth weapon believes in RED color uproot in Bengal

Launching a blistering attack on the CPI-M, AICC general secretary Mr Rahul Gandhi today said it had created “two Bengals" ~ “one belonging to it, which is shining” and the other to “the poor and us”. He shared with his party supporters at a rally at Shahid Minar his “personal” experiences with China and Russia to predict the CPI-M would be “uprooted” from Bengal soon. Cheered on by loyalists, whose number had swelled by the time he reached the venue, Mr Gandhi said: “There are two Indias ~ one belonging to the rich where there is progress and development and the other to the poor and the backward who have no job, food, education and electricity just as there are two Bengals."
“The UPA government had released crores of rupees under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act and other schemes to the state government, but the money disappeared before it could reach the poor. The CPI-M pocketed the money,” he alleged. The state government, however, denied the charge.
Mr Gandhi said: “I have been to China some time back and there the leaders asked me what the CPI-M was doing in Bengal. I didn't say anything on my own, it's they who broached the subject”. He said the Marxists not only flaunt their “party-to-party” contact with the Communist Party of China, but also cite the latter's “experiment of socialist reconstruction” as an example they want to emulate.
He drew applause when he said he had seen his father, “who was then the PM”, meeting leaders of the erstwhile Soviet Union. “Then one day I read in the newspapers that Soviet Russia had collapsed. This is also what is going to happen to the CPI-M. They (the Marxists) are still clinging to the old thinking of the 1970s and 1980s, while the world is moving forward,” he said. About 45 per cent of the people in the state have no ration cards, while names of CPI-M activists and their loyalists figure in the BPL list to the exclusion of the Adivasis, he said.
Mr Gandhi claimed his membership drives in UP and Tamil Nadu had been “a grand success.” Mr Pranab Mukherjee, Union finance minister, said he didn't subscribe to the theory of coalition politics as the Congress had ruled the country for over four decades. It had weakened in UP, Bihar, West Bengal and Tamil Nadu where “regional parties have gained strength, but Rahul Gandhi has changed the situation in UP and Tamil Nadu’’, he said.
In an instance of security lapse, a car entered Mr Gandhi's convoy while he was being driven to the airport. Comments (0)