Modi working for industrialists: Rahul Gandhi

FIROZPUR JHIRKA (Haryana): Charging Prime Minister Narendra Modi with working for a few industrialists, Rahul Gandhi on Thursday alleged that Modi lifted control on drug prices at the behest of some US companies which has led to cancer medicines to cost over Rs 1 lakh instead of Rs 8,000 earlier.

Addressing an election rally here, the Congress vice-president accused Modi of taking the decision before his visit to the US to please American companies. Diabetes drugs have also become expensive, he said.

"He is working for big industrialists and very soon the country will be run only for them," he said.

Gandhi also coined a new slogan for Haryana, "Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan, Jai Pa halwan" -a reference to a number of world class wrestlers the state has produced.

Modi's charge that Congress did nothing in the last 60 years is an insult to the farmers and labourers who have toiled hard all these years to help the country progress, Gandhi said.