BJP ‘inciting fights’ in country: Rahul
NARNAGAR(BASTAR): Congress vicepresident Rahul Gandhi raised questions over “silence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on rapes, killings and atrocities” in Bastar and also targeted Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh on the Panama Papers revelations, on Saturday.
Slamming the PM and the BJP, he said, “Jahan jaate hain ek Hindustani ko doosre Hindustani se ladaate hain... Jammu Kashmir mein aag laga di... Northeast mein aag laga di... Haryana mein aag laga di... Chhattisgarh mein mahilaaon ko maar rahe hain, lekin pradhanmantri ji ne ek shabd nahi bola (Wherever they go they initiate violence... they triggered violence in Jammu and Kashmir, Northeast, Haryana... Women are being beaten up in Chhattisgarh, but the Prime Minister is silent).”
Rahul was addressing a rally at Nagarnar in Maoist-affected Bastar region.
Attacking Singh, he said Nawaz Sharif resigned as Pakistan prime minister after his family’s name figured in the Panama Papers, but Singh had not resigned yet despite his family also facing allegations in the scandal. Last year, the Congress alleged that Singh’s son Abhishek held offshore assets as per the Panama Papers, which are leaked documents of about 1.15 crore files containing details of nearly 2.15 lakh bank accounts.
Singh and his son, the Lok Sabha MP from Rajnandgaon, have rubbished the allegations. Singh has described the charges as “baseless and unfounded”.
Rahul said Singh was not resigning “because he is a leader of RSS and BJP. Modiji talks about corruption. Why he can’t see the corruption of Raman Singh and Rajasthan CM (Vasundhara Raje).”