Accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of ignoring the interests of the poor, Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu said on Tuesday that the prime minister represented only the affluent. Sidhu, a minister in the Punjab government, launched the attack on PM while addressing an election rally in Dangs, part of the Valsad Lok Sabha seat. The Congress has fielded MLA Jitu Chaudhary against MP KC Patel from Valsad seat. "Modiji, you are the Prime Minister of only one per cent wealthy people. You are not the PM of poor citizens. You are asking these locals to vacate their land and go elsewhere. Almost 80 per cent of locals of this region are working as labourers in other states," the cricketer-turned-politician said. Sidhu, who was with the BJP earlier, said that PM Modi had failed to keep his promise of generating two crore jobs every year. "You promised two crore jobs every year, but, only 8 lakh people got jobs in your tenure. Though China's GDP is 6 per cent, it gave jobs to 70 lakh people in five years. While India's GDP growth is 8 per cent, we could create only 8 lakh jobs," he said. He claimed that even state-run HAL, BSNL and MTNL were retrenching employees under the current government, and said that there were 25 lakh vacancies in the government. The Congress leader said that his party would grant loan waiver to farmers after coming to power. (with agency inputs)

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