The poor must organise themselves, fight for their rights: Rahul

Puducherry, Feb 17 : In a strong bid to attract the fishermen community, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday appealed to the poor in the country to unite and organise themselves to demand their rights from the ruling BJP.
Interacting with fishermen at the coastal village Muthailpet along with Chief Minister V. Narayanasamy here, Gandhi alleged that the union government is systematically dismantling all small and medium enterprises as they want them to be controlled by one or two big corporate entities.
“The union government gets such courage only because it is poor who are in the country’s more disorganised sector. We are busy fighting among ourselves. Whereas the rich are very organised and fight unitedly. Even during the Covid pandemic, these rich were able to secure more than Rs 1.5 lakh crore loans, while on the other hand the poor were asked to pay for their bus or rail fare when they were migrating during the same period,” he explained He added that the union government has brought in three farm laws which are causing the farmers tremendous pain.
“The Union government seems to have completely forgotten that farmers are the backbone of the country whereas I consider fishermen as the farmers of the sea,” he contended.
Emphasising that the views of the Congress party over protecting SME sector are different, he asserted that the party wants to strengthen small and medium businesses which are the strength of this country. “Demonetisation, hurried implementation of GST and all others are to weaken the small businesses,” he alleged.