Rahul Gandhi will begin the third leg of his ‘Navsarjan Yatra’ from Jambusar, where he addressed a public meeting. Later in the day, he will address a public rally in Bharuch district, which will be attended by farmers affected by land acquisition.

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Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi is on a three-day visit to Gujarat, his first after the Election Commission announced the dates for the upcoming assembly elections.

During his last visit, Rahul Gandhi attacked the Narendra Modi-led government’s policies and described its new tax regime as “Gabbar Singh Tax”.

Amid thunder of applauses Rahul Gandhi said the next government in Gujarat will be a government of farmers, poor, traders, and not of “Modi’s industrialists”.

Mocking the Gujarat development model, Rahul Gandhi said: “If you go to a hospital in Gujarat model, you will get thrown without lakhs of rupees in your pockets…Gujarat model hai bhaiya , Gujarat model. If you don’t have money, then work doesn’t get done here”.

He alleged that “Modi’s industrialists” are running all the hospitals and educational institutions in Gujarat and small businesses are suffering.

Rahul did not spare even Jaitley and said “Jaitley sits in his office and believes a foreign company talking of “ease of business”. Did Jaitley ji go to a small shop owner and ask what is the “ease of doing business. For this govt, what is spoken abroad is truth, but reality of India is false”.

Congress vice-president accused him of extending a huge loan for the Tata Nano project at a low-interest rate. He said all the loans of farmers in Gujarat can be waived off with the same amount.

“Farmers are suffering in Gujarat, they want their loans waived…“ For the Tata Nano he gave a bank loan at a low-interest rate, he gave your land too.

“The amount of loan he extended to Tata Nano project, it would have erased all your loans. Have you seen a Nano car on a road? He gave your land, water to them… this is the development model of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.”

Earlier GPCC president Bharatsinh Solanki speaks of Gandhi’s Bharuch connection through grandfather Feroze Gandhi.