'Aren't you ashamed of selling Bharat Mata': Rahul Gandhi's scathing attack on Centre over US trade deal
PTC News Desk: Congress MP Rahul Gandhi launched a scathing attack on the Centre ver the recently finalised trade deal with the United States and said the government should be ashamed of the same.
Gandhi while speaking in the Lok Sabha, Gandhi said Centre "sold India", adding that by allowing US goods to enter, the government endangered the livelihoods of farmers.
"You have sold India. Are you not ashamed of selling India? You have sold our mother, Bharat Mata," he said while referring to the trade agreement.
He further alleged that it was a 'wholesale surrender' with transfer of India's energy security to America and got farmers' interest compromised. Gandhi added that had an INDIA Bloc government negotiated the trade agreement with the US, it would have told Donald Trump that he should treat India as an equal.
"This is complete surrender. It is a tragedy because it is a surrender not just of the Prime Minister. He has surrendered the future of 1.5 billion Indians. He has surrendered the future because he wants to protect the BJP's financial architecture on which there is a case in the United States," Gandhi said.
Gandhi further said that farmers' interests are being compromised and they are grappling with agricultural crisis as products from the US will flood Indian markets, while asserted that the textile industry has also collapsed.
In response to Rahul Gandhi's attack on Centre, Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju no one can sell India and accused Congress of weakening the country. He asserted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is the strongest PM of India and said, “Congress is sad because India is progressing."
- With inputs from agencies
