Kalaburagi: Campaigning for the BJP in a public meeting at Yadrami, in Kalaburagi on Tuesday, Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting and Textiles Smriti Irani said that the Congress leaders were more concerned about their own future, than that of the people, making them insensitive to the problems of the citizens.

She said that only BJP leaders like Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP National President Amit Shah were working for the cause of the people, while the Congress leaders were only thinking about themselves.

Criticising Congress President Rahul Gandhi for his ineligibility to become the Prime Minister of the country, she said, “Mr. Gandhi recently said in Bengaluru that he would become the next Prime Minister if people voted the Congress to power in the next Lok Sabha elections. The man who is not confident of his own future is asking people to give their future to his hands.” She also mocked Mr. Gandhi’s dream of becoming the country’s PM when he could not correctly pronounce the name of Visvesvaraya.

Ms. Irani stated that it was Mr. Gandhi and his party which always had a problem, when the BJP-led Central Government introduced new schemes for the welfare of the people. “Nobody ever thought of saving poor women from the kitchen smoke. It was BJP-led Union government’s Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojan that did it. When 3.5 crore poor families get free cooking gas cylinders or when poor people get the benefits of Mudra Yojana, Mr. Gandhi feels the trouble,” she said.

While accusing the Congress government in the State and Chief Minister Siddaramaiah for being responsible for the suicide of 3700 farmers, she promised that if the BJP comes to power in the State, then the Yeddyurappa government would ddecide to waive farm loans borrowed from nationalised banks, in its very first Cabinet meeting.

Ms. Irani mocked the Garibi Hatao slogan of the Congress, because all the party did in its time of power was push the people into poverty. She appealed to the people to vote for the BJP in the Assembly Elections so that the problems of corruption and poverty could be removed from Karnataka.