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Rahul to lead rally against AAP, BJP on May 28

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : May 24 2016 | 5:02 PM IST
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi will hit the streets of the national capital on May 28 against the AAP dispensation in Delhi and BJP government at the Centre over power cuts and water shortage in the city, Delhi Congress said today.
Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee chief Ajay Maken said Rahul will lead a rally from Raj Ghat to the Delhi Secretariat, the administrative headquarters of the city government, around 6.30 PM.
"Rahul ji will lead the Mashal Juloos (torch light procession) against Power/Water woes- And the apathy of Governments in Delhi on 28th May from Rajghat at 6:30 PM," Maken tweeted.
Maken said the power and water woes were due to the "constant clashes" between AAP and BJP and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's "habit" of locking horns with the Centre on each and every issue.
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Gandhi said the colour of a banknote is decided by whether it is in the hands of the honest or the dishonest.

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"A note has no colour. There is an honest person on one side and a dishonest one on the other. If the note goes into the hands of the dishonest person like Mallya, it turns black as if under a spell of magic," he said, referring to now-defunct Kingfisher Airlines promoter Vijay Mallya.
Gandhi said the Prime Minister has given Rs 3 'laddoo' to the poor people, but has given away a Rs 1,200 crore 'laddoo' to Vijay Mallya, who is accused of "running" away from the country after defaulting on his loans worth thousands of crores of rupees.
The Congress Vice President wondered why Modi chose to target the 99 per cent honest people and not the one per cent who possess all the black money, as also on six per cent black money which is in cash and not the 94 per cent in gold, real estate and foreign banks including Swiss banks.
"All black money is not in cash and all cash is not black. The one per cent people who own black money keep their thousands of crores in real estate, big buildings, gold and Swiss bank accounts.
"There is only six per cent black money in cash in India. The rest of 94 per cent black money is in real estate, gold and in foreign banks. Those who stash huge sum of black money, don't do it only in cash but in real estates, jewellery and other forms," he said.
Gandhi said this is the reason why Modi did not target the one per cent rich and he chose to target the 99 per cent people.
"Modiji knows where the black money is stashed... It is with those who travel with Modiji to America. These are the same people who get all the defence contracts. These are the same people who have thousands of crores worth of land and those whose houses are worth Rs 3-4-5-6 thousand crore," he said.
Gandhi also accused Modi of snatching away land of tribal people in Himachal Pradesh the same way BJP governments in Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh had done.

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First Published: May 24 2016 | 5:02 PM IST

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