After Modi’s Adani taunt, Rahul says PM is ‘scared’
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday dared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to get an inquiry done by the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate after Mr. Modi accused the Congress of having a nexus with “Ambani and Adani”.
Mr. Modi, addressing an election rally in Telangana, asked if the Congress had received “Tempo [a goods carrier] loads of black money” from the two businessmen since Mr. Gandhi stopped “abusing” them and had gone silent. Hitting back at Mr. Modi, Mr. Gandhi released a video in which he asked if receiving money in Tempos was “a personal experience”, and said the Prime Minister got “a little scared”.
At an election meeting in Telangana, Mr. Modi said the Congress owed an explanation to the people why it had stopped raising the issue of Ambani and Adani. Without naming Mr. Gandhi, he said the Congress’s ‘Shehzada’ used to chant the names of “ve industrialists” to spread false narratives in the last ve years against the BJP but had gone silent after elections were announced.
‘Something is shy’
“Certainly, something is shy. For ve years, [they] abused Adani-Ambani and it stopped overnight. It means you have received some tempo loads of ‘chori ka maal’ [loot]...Kaale dhan ki kitni boriya bharkar ke rupaye maare hai [how many sacks of black money you have taken]. You have to answer the nation,” Mr. Modi added.