"In this developing part of India, if you are trying to denigrate development or win elections on the basis of dividing people along caste lines, it is not good for the society and the country," the minister said. All other states of the country where poison of casteism has been spread have lagged way behind in development," he said, denouncing the Congresss attempt to woo caste leaders like Hardik Patel, Jignesh Mevani and Alpesh Thakor.Ahmedabad: Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday accused the Congress of running a strange campaign in Gujarat by mocking development and spreading the "poison of casteism".Asked about Gandhi making fun of GST during his campaign tour in south Gujarat, Jaitley said, "I firmly believe he has no understanding of this subject, he has not studied it.Jaitley also targeted Rahul Gandhi over his recent remarks on the Goods and Services Tax, saying he firmly believes that the Congress vice-president has no knowledge of the subject.
Development fights poverty, it fights backwardness but they are making fun of it," Jaitley said. Development helps all," he said."When development takes place, highways are made, universities are built, electricity is supplied, then all the sections of society are benefited."The game of trying to split the state along caste lines is extremely dangerous," Jaitley, who is the in-charge of Gujarat polls, said."If anything does not work then you spread the poison of casteism to stop developmental politics.
They used the entire govement machinery during the 2007 and 2012 elections, misused the CBI, used anti-national elements in the form of terrorists," he alleged..He said that since the 2002 elections, the BJPs main agenda in Gujarat had been development and they had not wavered from that path despite many distractions. This is for the first time - not only in India but in the entire world - that a political party is starting its campaign by showing development as something bad."During the last three elections in Gujarat, the Congress tried to target a person (Narendra Modi).He further accused the Congress of spreading the poison of casteism."This time I find the situation very China Hosiery Machine Comapny Manufacturers strange.