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The Leader of the Opposition successful the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi addressed 2 nationalist meetings successful Uttarakhand implicit telephone and video telephone aft atrocious upwind prevented him from reaching the venues successful Almora and Pauri Garhwal. The Congress person accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of pursuing policies that helium claimed benefited overseas interests, portion weakening cardinal socio-economic safeguards astatine home.
Mr. Gandhi was visiting the elevation State to motorboat the Congress’s run for the Uttarakhand Assembly election, scheduled aboriginal adjacent year. Addressing an ex-servicemen’s gathering successful Pauri Garhwal via video link, helium apologised for his lack and praised Uttarakhand’s agelong contented of subject service.
Soldiers articulation the Army, Navy, and Air Force driven by patriotism and a willingness to sacrifice for the nation, Mr. Gandhi said. He described an “unwritten contract” betwixt soldiers and the government, nether which unit dedicated their lives to defending the state portion the State guaranteed extortion and enactment for them and their families.
“The Agniveer strategy has breached this ineffable knowing by weakening semipermanent information and benefits for soldiers...This strategy undermines the foundational narration betwixt the equipped forces and the authorities and fails to supply capable extortion to soldiers’ families successful the lawsuit of sacrifice,” helium said, reiterating the Congress party’s Opposition to the scheme. The strategy would beryllium reviewed and scrapped if the Congress came to power, helium said.
The Agniveer strategy was linked to the government’s efforts to divert defence resources towards a fistful of ample firm groups, helium alleged. He besides criticised the authorities implicit issues related to disablement pensions and veterans’ welfare.
The Congress person warned of what helium described arsenic an impending economical situation and attacked a caller India-U.S. agreement, claiming it had compromised India’s vigor security, agriculture sector, information sovereignty and tiny and mean enterprises. He alleged that the woody favoured U.S. President Donald Trump and his interests portion exposing Indian farmers and businesses to unfair competition.
Mr. Gandhi besides accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of concentrating economical and strategical assets successful the hands of a fewer firm groups, arguing that specified attraction posed risks to nationalist security.
Apart from a video telephone successful Pauri, Mr. Gandhi besides addressed a nationalist gathering via a telephonic telephone successful Almora. He besides spoke implicit a video telephone to the parents of 18-year-old Ankita Bhandari, who was assaulted and murdered successful 2022, and assured them of afloat enactment successful the combat for justness for their daughter.
Mr. Gandhi was besides scheduled to conscionable enactment workers successful Dehradun connected Friday (June 5, 2026), which was besides cancelled. He headed backmost to Delhi, saying that helium would instrumentality soon.
