Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru
Bengaluru, Oct 24: Senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily expressed confidence that Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi would be the “face of the country” and projected him as the prime ministerial candidate for the 2019 Lok Sabha election.
Addressing a press conference on Tuesday, he said that stage is set for Rahul Gandhi to become Prime Minister as there has been an anti-incumbency wave against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the last eight months.
Moily criticized the BJP-led NDA government for its 'inexperience and misgovernance' of the economy, citing demonetisation and GST as examples. India has lost the reputation as the world’s fastest-growing economy to China due to slower pace of GDP growth, he blamed.
He praised Siddaramaiah government in Karnataka for outperforming the national average specifically in the areas of attracting industrial investments and creation of jobs.
The Karnataka government has created 14 lakh jobs compared to national level where job creation is in the negative bracket
This is the second time that Moily has projected Gandhi as prime ministerial candidate. Even Gandhi had said last month at the University of California, Berkeley that he is ready for the ‘top job’.