New Delhi, March 26 -- Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday, while training his guns at the Bharatiya Janata-led Union government, accused them of "oppressing" the common people, and neglecting the middle class and poor people.

"In the last 78 years, no government has weakened the common people economically as much as the Modi government has oppressed them! Economic inequality is at a frightening level. Billionaires have become trillionaires and the poor are becoming destitute," Kharge said in a post on X.

Citing data from the International Labour Organization, Kharge underlined that slowing wage growth rate, along with low wages have made the middle class worse off.

"The status of middle class income today is what it was...