Entire Cong is out on bail, says Modi

Sonia Gandhi and the yuvraj (Rahul Gandhi) are out on bail in National Herald case. Everything is on bail — the party, its leaders, its government. NARENDRA MODI , Prime Minister

BILASPUR: Sounding the poll bugle in Himachal Pradesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said the entire Congress, including its president Sonia Gandhi, vice-president Rahul Gandhi and others were “out on bail” on corruption charges against them and called the Virbhadra Singh cabinet as “government on bail”.

Addressing a public meeting after laying the foundation of a ₹1,350 crore, 750-bed AIIMS hospital in Bilaspur, and an IIIT building in the state, he said, “Everything here is on bail. The party (Congress) is on bail, the government is on bail.”

“This is a ‘zamanati sarkar’. When some people of Congress came to meet me, I told them the chief minister and his family is out on bail, and why don’t you change the chief minister,” Modi said, referring to Virbhadra Singh, who is facing cases of disproportionate property and is out on bail. “Then the Congress people replied, saying that our entire party is on bail, our (Congress) president is facing corruption charges.”

Taking a dig at the Congress leadership, Modi said, “Sonia Gandhi and the ‘yuvraj’ (Rahul Gandhi) are out on bail in the National Herald case Everything is on bail — the party, its leaders and its government are out on bail. Now tell me, don’t do we need to oust this government which is out on bail?”

Highlighting corruption during the UPA government, Modi said, “Before 2014, newspapers were filled with stories of corruption. But in the last three years there is no stain on us. Earlier, people used to ask how much money was lost in scams like coal, 2G, land, water, air, etc., how much amount was lost. But now people ask how much money has come to India?”