Poor people cheated in Kerala bank scam will get back their money: Modi
PM says money of the poor has been looted openly in the State and new models of corruption have been tried out; he alleges that Cong. has made backdoor alliance with banned organisation
rime 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
Phas 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.
LDF, UDF flayed
“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,” the PM said.
“The BJP’s manifesto is a manifesto for the development of the country. It has Modi’s guarantee,” he said. Urging people to vote for the NDA candidates, Mr. Modi said “each vote you give to the NDA will be for the support of poor people”.
NDA candidates Suresh Gopi (Thrissur), T.N. Sarasu (Alathur), K.A. Unnikrishnan (Chalakudy), Nivedita Subramanian (Ponnani), and M. Abdul Salam (Malappuram) attended the programme.
This is the third visit of the Prime Minister to Thrissur in 2024.
Rahul Gandhi during an election campaign in the Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency on Monday.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has launched a scathing attack on the BJP and the RSS over their concept of ‘one nation, one language, one leader, and one people’.
Addressing the public in Wayanad on Monday, Mr. Gandhi said the main fight in the election was between the ideologies of the RSS and the Congress.
Mr. Gandhi said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other BJP leaders were nowadays vocal about one nation, one language, one leader, and one people and it stemmed from a wrong understanding of the country. “Language is not something that is imposed
from the top. It comes from a person’s heart,” he said. To tell a person from Kerala that your language is inferior to Hindi, for example, is an insult to the people of Kerala, he said. “Malayalam is not just a language, it is your link to your civilisation,” Mr. Gandhi said.
‘Many leaders needed’
“The idea that India should have only one leader is an insult to every young Indian,” Mr. Gandhi said, adding: “Why cannot a young boy or girl not be a leader, why cannot one of our brothers who is driving an autorickshaw or a police officers be a leader?”
“Why one leader? There should be millions of leaders in India,” he added.