Cong steps up offensive against Govt on corruption, NRC

Stepping up its offensive against the BJP-led government, the Congress today said it will launch a public campaign to "expose" the Centre on corruption issue by highlighting the Rafale deal and bank scams, and accused the BJP of "befooling" the people by politicising the NRC process.

The principal opposition party at a meeting of its working committee decided to stake ownership of Assam's National Register of Citizens (NRC) exercise, saying it was Congress' "baby", and vowed to stand with every Indian citizen who has been left out in the draft list.

The CWC, which was chaired by party chief Rahul Gandhi, also decided to highlight the issue of "bad" state of the economy in the country as part of its public campaign (Jan Andolan), details of which would be worked out soon.

Former Congress president Sonia Gandhi was not present in the meeting.

"The CWC met today. As a team, we discussed the political situation in the country and the huge opportunity for the Congress to highlight issues of corruption and failure of the government to provide jobs to our youth. Thank you to all those who attended today's meeting," Rahul Gandhi said.

Taking to Twitter, he said, "One of the highlights of today's CWC meeting, was Mr Antony's brilliant description of the Rafale robbery: 130,000 crore stolen from the people of India and given to a friend who was Rs 45,000 crore in debt."
On BJP Amit Shah making it a poll issue in Rajasthan, he said "fake jumlas (rhetoric), empty steam and a divisive mindset' is the DNA of Shah" and asked him to stop "lying" on deportation of foreigners