Mock me but answer corruption charges: Rahul to Modi

A combative Rahul Gandhi today hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for mocking his yesterday's speech wherein the Congress vice president had accused him of having taken money from corporate groups, saying he could make fun of him but needed to answer the charges of personal corruption levelled against him.
At a 'jan aakrosh rally' in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh, the Congress vice president told the Prime Minister that he could make fun of him as much as he can but should answer the questions raised by him.
"The charges have not been levelled by me alone but by the youth of India who feel cheated as you had promised them jobs," an aggressive Rahul said.

Waving sheets of paper which purportedly contained details of charges against Modi having allegedly accepted money from Sahara and Birla groups when he was Gujarat Chief Minister, the Congress vice president asked the Prime Minister to tell whether the documents were correct or not.
Sticking to his guns, he alleged Modi as the Gujarat Chief Minister had taken Rs 40 crore from the Sahara group in nine instalments spread over six months in 2013 and 2014.
Coming down hard against note ban, he insisted that the Prime Minister came out with the surprise decision not to help the poor but the "super rich 50 families of India".

Taking a dig at the Prime Minister, Rahul dubbed him as a "super event planner" who had made "perfect planning" to take the money from the poor to help the rich who owe as much as Rs 8 lakh crore to the banks.

"Suck the money from the poor and feed the rich. Take the money from 99 per cent and give it to one per cent," he said adding that this was the essence of the note ban and not to weed out black money and help the poor as claimed by Modi.
"I will repeat the same question to the PM...Congress wants to eradicate corruption and if the NDA initiates any step in this direction it will be extended full support but this note ban decision is not against corruption or black money.

"Modiji said those standing in bank queues are thieves. Today, I saw people standing in front of the banks. Modiji they are not thieves but honest poor," he said, adding that there was not a single rich or "suited, booted" person who is seen on the Prime Minister's aircraft when he goes abroad, standing in the lines.
Earlier, Rahul took to twitter to attack the Prime Minister. "Modiji first tell us what was contained in the ten packets from Sahara," the Congress Vice President tweeted in Hindi.
Along with the tweet was posted a document purportedly with the Income Tax Department of nine entries from October 2013 to February 14 detailing "cash payments made to Modiji".

His comments came close on the heels of the Prime Minister, at a function in Varanasi, ridiculing Rahul's remarks about creating an "earthquake" with accusations of corruption against him.
Modi said he is happiest since the Congress leader has "learnt" to speak as he has unwittingly admitted the "failure" of his party's rule.
"They have a young leader who is just learning to give speeches. Since the time he has learnt to speak, there is no limit to my happiness. In 2009, you couldn't even tell what is inside this packet and what is not. Now we are finding out," Modi said without naming Rahul.

At a rally in Mehsana, home turf of Modi, Rahul had yesterday accused Modi of taking money from Sahara and Birla groups when he was the Gujarat Chief Minister.
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The Congress vice president, who stopped his speech in respect to the 'aazan' at a nearby mosque, alleged the country has been divided into two groups where 1 per cent rich are in one group, while 99 per cent honest the other.
"The policies of your government over two years have put 60 per cent wealth in the hands of 1 per cent people of the country," he said.

He alleged Modi is not recovering loans from those who had helped him in "marketing" in the Lok Sabha election and has brought note ban to halt the wealth of 99 per cent in banks for a long time.
"His planning was to somehow block your money in banks for as long as possible so that the loans of the rich worth Rs 8 lakh crores could be waived," Rahul alleged.
He said when people started questioning the PM on "unfulfilled promises", he decided to enact a new drama of surgical strikes on black money.
"This was not surgical strike but fire-bombing on the poor, the farmers, the laboureres and the middle class," he asserted.

"Modi had promised two crore jobs every year but several industrial units have closed," he added.
The Congress leader claimed "one child died in Mainpuri because he could not get proper treatment due to note ban, he (the PM) should tell the country why he has killed the child".
He said the Prime Minister has been "non-committal" on the three demands of the farmers his party delegation recently put to him.
"Everyday our farmers are committing suicide. We went to the PM with these problems, but the PM did not say even a word," he alleged.
He said "black money is with those who travel in jets with you (the PM), not with those who are standing in long queues".

"How many black money holders have been put in jail by Modi? Not even one. He, instead, made Lalit Modi and Vijay Mallya run away. Labourers don't purchase goods through debit or credit cards. They buy it with cash," he said.
Claiming that Rajnath Singh had said in the Parliament the intention behind note ban was good but its implementation faulty, Rahul said the Home Minister had perhaps failed to understand Modi.
"Rajnathji! this scheme was against the poor, the farmers, small labourers and middle class...In favour of those 50 families...Rajnathji Modi's planning was very good," Rahul said.
Rahul also referred to a conversation he had with Gujarat leader Shankar Singh Vaghela, who had worked with Modi in the past, saying he was told the PM is a "super event planner who can turn anything into an event... He makes very good plans".

Rahul also alleged the BJP governments in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh were snatching water, land and jungles from the adivasis and if any one raises his head "he is shot".
"This government has been attacking the poor in its over two years of government," he alleged.