Overview
- In a Hindi post on Friday, he said BJP governments have ruined lives through corruption, abuse of power and arrogance.
- He invoked the Ankita Bhandari murder in Uttarakhand, the Unnao rape case in Uttar Pradesh, and deaths tied to contaminated water in Indore, alongside water-quality complaints in Gujarat, Haryana and Delhi.
- He alleged a system of extortion in the name of development that reduces the poor, workers and the middle class to statistics.
- He cited public-health and infrastructure breakdowns — from cough syrup-linked child deaths and newborns killed by rats in government hospitals to collapsing school roofs, bridge failures, road cave-ins and deadly train accidents — accusing the government of offering only photo-ops and compensation.
- He claimed environmental safeguards are being sacrificed for billionaires, pointing to Aravalli-range violations, and argued that the prime minister’s double-engine model serves the wealthy rather than ordinary citizens.