In Odisha, Rahul Gandhi says Narendra Modi, Naveen Patnaik ‘snatched’ tribal lands 

Rahul Gandhi.

Rahul Gandhi, the Congress president, claimed that his party will protect the rights of the tribal community while accusing the prime minister, Narendera Modi, and the Odisha chief minister, Naveen Patnaik, of “snatching” tribal land.

On Wednesday, while addressing a rally at Bhawanipatna, a backward region of the state, Gandhi said the BJP-led Centre and the BJD dispensation in the state have “failed to work” for the dalits, the tribals, the farmers and the poor.

Gandhi alleged that the two parties are working for the benefit of their “industrialist friends” while “neglecting” the farmers and poor people as the Modi government waived Rs 3.5 lakh crore loans of 15 industrialists, but refused to waive farm loans.

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