Rahul accuses Modi of being bizmen’s agent
KOZHIKODE/WAYANAD: Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing him of helping a few rich businessmen in the country.
Gandhi also attacked Modi over the electoral bond issue, terming it as a form of extortion where the intimidatory tactics are much more sophisticated as central agencies like the CBI,
ED and Income Tax Department are deployed against the targeted businessmen.
“There are some people in every small town or village who extort money on the streets by threatening physical harm. In malayalam you call this extortion ‘kolla adikkal’ (loot), but Modi calls it electoral bonds. What a common thief is doing on the streets, the PM is doing at an international level,” he alleged.
Gandhi accused the BJP-led central government of using sophisticated tactics to threaten targeted businessmen.
“At the electoral bond level, the threats are much more sophisticated. The ED, CBI and Income Tax people will come, they will interrogate and at the end of it, they will say why don’t you give this (their business) to Adani,” he alleged. He said that this is how Adani got the Mumbai airport from its previous owner. In other instances, such intimidatory tactics also led to the businessman paying the BJP in electoral bonds, he also alleged.
In Kodiyathur, Gandhi alleged that Modi’s job was also to distract people from the real issues in the country, protect the richest businessmen in India and forgive their bank loans.
Modi is helping five or six of the biggest, richest businessmen in India, the sitting Congress MP from Wayanad alleged.