Agniveer will not get the martyr status: Rahul

Narendra Modi has finished small businesses by demonetization and GST: Rahul Gandhi

Rahul Gandhi and Tejashwi Yadav will conduct a joint rally in Patna

Indian National Congress (INC) leader Rahul Gandhi’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra is currently in Madhya Pradesh. He had earlier attacked the Narendra Modi Government over the Agnipath scheme in Morena. “There are now two types of martyrs after the Agniveer (Agnipath) scheme. Both will be martyrs but if he is an Agniveer, he will not get the martyr status and the pension. He will be told that ‘you gave your life for the nation but the nation will not honour you. This is happening because the government wants that the defence budget is not given to the jawans, and spent on their training and pension, but goes to the bank accounts of big businesspersons,” he had remarked. 

Earlier in the day, in one of his rallies in Gwalior he also addressed the issue of unemployment. “Today, there is the maximum unemployment in the country in the last 40 years. India has double the unemployment as compared to Pakistan. We have more unemployed youth than Bangladesh and Bhutan because Narendra Modi has finished small businesses by demonetization and implementing GST,” he remarked. 

The Yatra is expected to take a short detour as Rahul Gandhi and former Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar Tejashwi Yadav would be addressing a joint rally in Patna.