PM introduced black money disclosure scheme to safeguard his friends: Rahul Gandhi
06 October, Meerut
Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi today continued his attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi alleging that the Centre has brought the black money disclosure scheme just to save PM’s friends.
He alleged that the Prime Minister, in order to save the big fish involved in black money row, has brought in the scheme.” It is like a fair and lovely cream brought by Modi to save the people and his friends stashing black money in the country and converting them into white,” he charged on the last day of his 26-day long ”Deoria se Delhi Kisan Yatra here, which will end in new Delhi this evening.
Mr Gandhi said that all the claims of Modi proved false starting from his 56 inches chest, fighting against corruption and seizing the black money.” He is just interested in benefitting 15 select industrialists friends and doing nothing for the farmers, workers, youths and other sections of the society,” he alleged. ” Modi and his 15 friends are ‘mast’ in this regime , while all others are ‘trast’,” he further claimed.
Addressing series of roadside meetings during his three kilometer long road show in the city, Gandhi said this time, people are aware of the wrong-doings of the BJP and they would not allow 15 people rule Uttar Pradesh or the centre.” UP will go for a government which will be represented by every caste and community,” he said.
Commencing his roadshow after garlanding the statue of late PM Indira Gandhi, his grandmother, the Congress vice- president said asked Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to have faith in the Indian Army.
The roadshow concluded at Moinuddinpur after being welcomed at more than 25 places. Later, he left for Ghaziabad from where he will go to New Delhi to end his yatra this evening.
According to statistics given by team PK, the organisers of his yatra, Mr Gandhi has covered 3,438 kilometers during his 26 days yatra covering 48 districts and 57 Lok Sabha constituencies of UP. The Congress vice-president addressed 26 khat sabhas and went for 26 road shows while addressing more than 700 small road side meetings. Earlier, it was planned that the yatra will cover around 2,500 kms.
During the yatra,over 75 lakh farmers also filled up ‘ Mangpatras’ (demand papers) demanding that the Centre waive their agricultural loan, half the electricity bills and hike the MSP of the foodgrains they produce.