“I would like to tell my sisters in Amethi that before Diwali, I myself will pay for their Suraksha Bima Yojana,” Ms Irani announced at a function in Amethi, Uttar Pradesh, organised to celebrate one year in office of the BJP-led government at the Centre, in which she is education minister.
Ms Irani came bearing more gifts and launched another blistering attack on Mr Gandhi, who she had challenged in the Congress pocketborough of Amethi in last year’s national election.
“For 10 years farmers of Amethi demanded a railway rack of fertiliser. I made that promise this month and the first rack arrived at Gauriganj yesterday,” Ms Irani said, adding that promises that “were not fulfilled in 10 years, we have fulfilled in 10 days.”
Describing herself as the daughter of the family that is Amethi, Ms Irani also announced a soil testing lab and rued, “The love that Amethi’s people have given to politicians has never been returned.”
In a barb-a-minute at the Gandhi family that heads the Congress, she also said, “We never thought that people of Amethi and Rae Bareli would be left wanting for a rail line…What couldn’t be done in years, the BJP government has done in just one year; it has initiated the project of the Amethi-Unchahar railway line.”
Rae Bareli, which is next to Amethi, is the Lok Sabha constituency of Sonia Gandhi, Congress president and Rahul’s mother. Both Amethi and Rae Bareli have traditionally been Gandhi family seats and were the only two constituencies that the Congress won in the national election in Uttar Pradesh, which the BJP swept winning 71 of 80 seats.
Though Ms Irani – a TV-actress-turned-politician parachuted to contest against Mr Gandhi – was defeated, she had managed to reduce the Congress leader’s winning margin.
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