Commenting on one year of Modi government, Congress leader Raj Babbar on Friday said it has become a ‘suit, boot, loot ki sarkar.’
Earlier, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi had ridiculed the Modi government as ‘suit, boot ki sarkar.’
Mr. Babbar, who was in Patna to meet senior State party functionaries and to pay tributes to those lost their lives in the recent thunderstorm and earthquake, said: “It’s not only suit, boot ki sarkar but also loot ki sarkar. ”
‘No concern for people’
Though the government had completed one year, every section of society was feeling cheated by its inaction. “Be it youth, farmer or the small businessmen, all were promised a lot by Mr. Modi during the poll campaign.”
“He is behaving like a Maharaja who has no concern for the common people. He has also become a Paridhan (dress) Mantri, not Pradhan Mantri (Prime Minister),” Mr. Babbar said of Mr Modi.
Raising the farmer’s issues, Mr. Babbar said Mr. Modi had no time to meet them “but has time to click selfies.” “Maharaja Modi’s acts have earned him the epithet Kisan Virodhi, Narendra Modi,” he told mediapersons at the State party headquarters.
‘No funds for farmers’
“The Central government has enough money to give a loan of Rs. 5,000 crore to industrialist Adani and $1 billion to Mongolia but has no funds for the welfare of farmers and youth,” asked Mr. Babbar.
Slamming Mr. Modi for his regular foreign visits, the Congress leader said: “When different parts of the country are facing natural disasters, the Prime Minister is touring abroad on taxpayer’s money. You just name a country and he is there.”
No visit
State Congress president Ashok Chaudhury and Congress Legislature Party leader Sadanand Singh were present. “Mr. Modi has not visited Bihar even once when the State had been ravaged by storms, drought and earthquake,” Mr. Chaudhury said.
‘He has time for selfies, not for farmers’
