Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday (September 2, 2026) said rural communities should not be remembered only during droughts, floods, crop failures or elections, and called for a development model that provides them security before a crisis strikes.
“Our rural communities do not need to be remembered only when there is a drought, a flood, a crop failure or an election. Mr. The Congress president also took a swipe at the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. Mr. Linking the award to the legacies of Dr. Rajasekhara Reddy and agricultural scientist M.S. Swaminathan, Mr. Telangana Chief Minister A.
Kharge said. Kharge said governments must ensure that farmers have fair markets, rural families have decent livelihoods, and women have economic independence, while tribal communities and villages need access to technology, opportunities and basic infrastructure. “The government has an important role in creating this security, so that the communities become partners in India’s development,” he said. Without naming anyone, he said he had heard an RSS leader claim that India had witnessed many reforms. Kharge said it was the Congress party that had carried out the reforms being referred to. “We have to run after you for the thefts committed,” he alleged, without elaborating. Kharge said both believed that development must ultimately serve the dignity of ordinary people. The Congress chief said Swaminathan’s vision went beyond increasing food production as he advocated an “Evergreen Revolution”, seeking to increase food production without harming the environment and combining science with social equity and the dignity of rural communities. Revanth Reddy, who spoke at the event, said the Congress would have to work harder to remove the Narendra Modi government and realise its goal of making Rahul Gandhi the Prime Minister.
They deserve a development model that gives them security before the crisis arrives,” Mr.
