noida congresss west up incharge jyotiraditya scindia on sunday slammed the bjp government at the centre and state over farmers issues safety of women unemployment and growing intolerance in the country scindia was addressing a modest gathering of 1000 party members in support of candidate arvind kumar singh named sadbhavana sammelan the programme in sector 51 was organised by the congresss minority cell and aimed at consolidating minority votes in noida and greater noidascindia hailed uttar pradesh as a place of samagam confluence of holy rivers and different faiths and held the bjp responsible for a deterioration in law and order up is a place of communal harmony and secularism but since the bjp formed the government farmers are oppressed women are unsafe youths are unemployed he saidreferring to farmers distress he said peasants are not getting a reasonable price for their harvest sugarcane growers are oppressed in western up farmers from kashmir to kanyakumari are oppressed police under the bjp government opened fire at farmers in mandsaur the congress leader was referring to a farmers agitation for better support price of their crop in which six protesters were killed two years agoscindia also took a jibe at prime minister narendra modi over his foreign visits i told the prime minister you visited berlin london tokyo when will you visit indias farmers he said the bjp government is proving to be paan aur pakode ki sarkar he addedscindia claimed that unemployment rate had increased manifold across the country under the bjp government recently the government had issued an advertisement for the post of peons around 93000 people had applied for the jobs among them were 28000 phd holders 25000 with pg degrees and 30000 graduates this is the situation that the modi government has created in the past five years he saidhe also lashed out at the bjp government over its promises of creating jobs crackdown on black money and demonetisation demonetisation was a whimsical idea much like aaj kuch toofani karte hain a tagline of a soft drink commercial it killed 125 innocent people he said scindia said the bjp government has no right to be in power if it cant ensure the safety of women in an allusion to the unnao rape case he also took a dig at the centre over its claims of acting tough against pakistan and china saying it was the indira gandhiled government that forced pakistan to its kneesreferring to the akhlaq and junaid lynching cases he said there is an environment of growing intolerance in the country this country celebrates ramzan and diwali ramzan has ram and diwali has ali we have to launch a movement to save the social fabricthe congress leader referred to chief minister yogi adityanath a few times but there was no mention of the spbsp alliance in his 25minute speech suggesting that the party was in a direct contest with the bjp scindia held another public meeting in dhaulana where he reached two hours late here too