Rahul Gandhi

Rahul Gandhi has said that the BJP-led NDA was a “divided house of weak leaders” who released a dreaded terrorist at Kandahar. He said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was a strong leader who decided that the nuclear deal with the USA was good for the future of India and did not bother to sacrifice his government for that.
After landing at the Kullu-Manali airport, he reached Dhalpur Maidan where a huge gathering greeted him. He immediately struck an emotional chord with the upbeat crowd invoking the legacy of late Jawaharlal Nehru.
He said, “The BJP changes its stance according to place and time. It said different things in Bihar where it threw out people from UP, did something else in Karnataka and Orissa, where it threw out Christians. Its doing was different in Gujarat,” he alleged.
He said NDA minister Jaswant Singh accompanied a dreaded terrorist to Kandahar and released him there under the so-called strong leadership of Atal Bihari Vajpayee. He said it was ironic that the BJP had been terming Manmohan Singh a weak Prime Minister although he was successful in getting Pakistan isolated globally after the Mumbai attacks and had signed a nuclear deal with the USA not carrying a damn for the survival his government.
He said the Congress and the UPA introduced NREGA for the common man and the Tribal Act for tribals. On the other hand, the BJP gave empty slogan of “India Shining” that over 60 per cent Indians could not understand.
He said Himachal had got an IIT, an ESIC medical college and an NIFT centre, but these should not be construed as gifts of the Nehru-Gandhi family as these were their “rights”.
Virbhadra Singh said the state of Himachal came into being because of late Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi, who wanted to see it develop as a model hill state. The successive Congress governments in the state had realised their dream, he claimed.
Kaul Singh Thakur expressed hope that the party would win all four Lok Sabha seats in the state.