Rajasthan

Jaipur (Rajasthan): Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra alleged on Saturday that the country's big institutions that were formed to strengthen democracy have been weakened and today the situation is such that people do not have faith in the electronic voting machine. She also targeted the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led BJP government for unemployment at its peak and queried what they had done to remove unemployment? She was speaking at a public rally in Jaipur after the party launched its election manifesto in the presence of Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi. Priyanka Gandhi attacked the BJP, saying, "Today, unemployment is at its peak. What has the Modi-led BJP government done to remove unemployment?...They made promises but did not fulfil them." "They brought the Agniveer scheme, which broke the hopes of people...Papers are getting leaked in every state...Farmers are protesting on the streets but Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not ready to listen to them...," the Congress leader said. During her address, the Congress leader said, "The votes that you are going to cast will save the democracy of the country. You must be wondering how our democracy is in danger. It is because the big institutions that have been formed to strengthen democracy are getting weakened; they are (being) misused. Today, the situation is that people do not even have faith in EVM...". She referred to the election manifesto of the party as the voice of the nation. "I am very happy and proud that after becoming a member of the Rajya Sabha, my mother Sonia Gandhi has come to your state (Rajasthan)," she said. "Yesterday, we released our manifesto. We have named our manifesto 'Nyay Patra'. This manifesto ...