Rahul’s Punjab visit nothing but ‘Agricultural Tourism’ : Kamal Sharma

5 Dariya News

Chandigarh 29-Apr-2015

The Punjab BJP Chief Kamal Sharma today took dig at Tuesday’s visit of Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi to Punjab on the name of checking wheat procurement in the grain markets in Khanna, Sirhind and Fatehgarh Sahib by terming it nothing but an ‘Agricultural Tourism’ by the Congress vice-president.In a press statement issued from party headquarters, Sharma said that this visit of Rahul would not yield any result neither in favour of the Congress party nor the farmers of Punjab.

“When crop of the farmers was ruined by thundershowers and hailstorm across the region, Rahul was celebrating holidays in Bangkok. But now he suddenly decided to visit grain markets which is a clear cut attempt to make political gains from the issue of farming,” said Sharma.He said that the way Rahul visited via train in general class while travelling from Delhi to Punjab and later congress released his pictures to media where he was meeting the common passengers, clearly indicates that it was a planned visit by the Gandhi scion to improve his image.Sharma said that history shows that in the past few years too, Rahul Gandhi has performed such dramatic appearance of his image making.

“The classic example of Rahul’s drama is the famous episode in which Rahul had meal in the house of a poor widow lady Kalavati in vidharbha(Mharashtra) but when she needed government support for her welfare, the Congress government at the Centre did not pay any heed,” the Punjab BJP chief said.He said that the SAD-BJP government in Punjab and the NDA government at the Centre is committed to pay back for each and every grain that farmers of Punjab are producing for the country and the Congress should not play politics over the issue in an aim to misguide the farmers.