Kerala bank scam victims will get back their money: Modi
PM says money of the poor has been looted openly in Kerala and new models of corruption have been tried out; he alleges that Congress has made backdoor alliance with banned organisation
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who attended an election campaign of the National Democratic Alliance in Thrissur on Monday, promised to return the money seized by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with the scam at the Karuvannur Service Cooperative Bank to the investors.
“The money of the poor people has been looted openly in Kerala. New models of corruption have been tried out here. The CPI(M) has looted the investors who deposited their hardearned money, saved even for wedding purposes of their daughters. The CPI(M) has pushed thousands of poor people into misery. The Chief Minister has been lying for the last three years by promising to return the money,” said Mr. Modi.
“So far, the ED has seized ₹90 crore. I have been discussing with officials how to return this money to the victims of the scam. The BJP government has so far returned ₹17,000crore scam money to investors in various States. I will do everything possible to return the money of Karuvannur investors,” he said.
He said a “major leader” of the Congress who could not “save a family seat in Uttar Pradesh” has found shelter in Kerala. “But the Congress leader never uttered a word against the cooperative bank scam.
For winning the election, the Congress has made a backdoor alliance with even a banned organisation,” he said.
“The entire country is achieving rigorous development under the BJP rule. But the LDF and UDF are blocking the development in Kerala. They are taking the State backwards. Wherever the Left government is ruling, nothing will be left there. This happened in West Bengal and Tripura,” said Mr. Modi. “Violence has become rampant in Kerala. Political murders are common. Tension prevails on campuses. People need to keep away from LDF and the UDF,” he said. “Whatever development the country has witnessed in the last 10 years is just a trailer,” he said.