PM 'failed' India's daughters: Congress jabs Modi ahead of U.P. rallies
The Hindu
Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh questions PM Modi on Jaunpur medical college, Gomti river, and women's safety in India.
The Congress on May 16 renewed its attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the BJP giving a Lok Sabha ticket to the son of incumbent MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, who is facing charges of sexually harassing women wrestlers, and asked whether women ever be safe in "Modi's India".
Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh posed questions to the Prime Minister ahead of his rallies in Uttar Pradesh.
"Will the Jaunpur medical college ever be completed? Why has the Gomti river been re-branded and not re-vived? Will women ever be safe in Modi's India?" Mr. Ramesh said.
Elaborating on what he said were "jumla details", Mr. Ramesh said the foundation stone of the Jaunpur medical college was laid by Akhilesh Yadav in 2015 but nine years later, it is still not complete.
It was meant to be completed in 2017 but when the BJP came to power in Uttar Pradesh, they chose not to prioritise this project, he alleged.
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"Despite this, the half-functional college was 'inaugurated' by the outgoing PM and CM Yogi in October 2021. At the end of 2023, only 63% of the college's civil work had been completed and only the OPD was functional," he claimed.
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