Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi addresses a rally in Uttarakhand's Almora
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi addressed a rally today in Uttarakhand's Almora. He targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi over demonetisation.
Here are the highlights of his speech:
- Congress party wants to obliterate corruption from India
- Congress will support any step against corruption
- But notes ban wasn't against black money or corruption, it was economic robbery
- PM Modi hasn't listened to the farmers. But he has forgiven 1.40 lakh crore in loans to 15 rich people but not farmers.
- Speaking about labourers in Parliament, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said they dig holes. They made fun of labourers. Modi ji India's labourers don't dig holes, they build India.
- You have divided India into two halves. On one side, India's super rich - 50 families, on the other side the 99% of India, including the poor, the honest, hard-working people.
- Under NDA, 1 percent of Indians have 60 percent of the wealth
- 99 percent Indians don't have black money
- 94 percent of the black money is in Swiss Bank accounts, gold and land
- Just 6 percent of black money is in cash
- I don't know why PM Modi has made this 6 percent black money his target, not the 94 percent
- I'll tell you why he took aim at the poor people
- He had said I'll put 15 lakhs in every account
- You gave Vijay Mallya 1,200 crore ki toffee
- You could not give to Uttarakhand
- This is suit boot ki Sarkar
- They say notes ban is a surgical strike on corruption
- But no, this is firebombing on India's poor
- Don't say murdabad, they do that, we don't. This is Gandhi ji's party
- More people were killed in firebombing during WWII than in Hiroshima
- I'll tell you why they introduced notes ban
- There is some 8 lakh crore in unpaid loans today by rich people
- When farmers don't pay loans, you take away their land, houses
- But when super rich don't pay loans, you call them defaulters and their debt Non Performing Asset
- You restructure their loans but don't recover it
- With your money, Modi ji wants to forgive this 8 lakh crore in loans
- Take from the poor, give to the rich
- And he wants your money to stay in the banks for as long as possible