‘BJP has created a Chakravyuha’: Rahul Gandhi lashes out at govt in Lok Sabha

New Delhi: Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi said on Monday that the BJP government has created a Chakravyuha with the concentration of financial power, institutions such as CBI, ED and Income Tax and with political executives and large business groups, and claimed that the Union Budget for FY24-25 has “strengthened” this framework instead of providing relief to the people. An aggressive Gandhi said that the middle class has abandoned the BJP after the Budget “stabbed them” by doing away with the indexation benefit for capital gains tax on real estate transactions and hiking the capital gains tax on equities. You haven’t done anything to stop this tax terrorism.” In his second major speech in the 18th Lok Sabha, the Leader of the Opposition claimed that the internship programme—which Congress leaders have said was borrowed from the proposed Apprenticeship law in the party’s manifesto--“is a joke” and said, “because you have destroyed the MSME sector, the people of India can’t get jobs. Our government had given MGNREGA and loan waiver to allow famers come out of Chakravyuhas.” Gandhi also targeted two large business houses and said, “these two people control India’s infrastructure.