Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today accused the government of not allowing him to speak in Parliament on demonetization, which he dubbed as the "biggest scam", and said he would reveal in the House what was behind the move to scrap high denomination notes.
Speaking to reporters outside Parliament, Gandhi said that his party wants debate on demonetization so that the truth can come to the fore, but the government is running away from it.
The Congress Vice President said that when he gets a chance to speak about demonetization in the House, "the Prime Minister will not be able to even sit there".
"The Prime Minister is giving speeches across the country but is afraid of coming to the Lok Sabha and is not willing to sit there," Gandhi said and asked what could be the reason for this "nervousness".
"Demonetization is the biggest scam in the history of India.... I want to speak in Lok Sabha. I will tell everything there," Gandhi said and accused the government of not allowing him to speak in the House on the issue.
The Congress leader was speaking after his party said in Lok Sabha that it was ready to debate the issue but the government demanded that it should first apologise to the people of the country for stalling Parliament proceedings for 16 days, leading to uproar and adjournment of the House.
Gandhi said initially the Government spoke about black-money, then moved to counterfeit currency and then again to a cashless society campaign.
He said, "I want to tell about the the biggest scam committed by Narendra Modi single handedly" and present the "voice of people, specially poor, who have suffered due to this move".
He said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should come to the House so that it can be discussed "what demonetization is, who has benefited from this decision is and what it means for whom".
He added that the government had initially proposed debate on demonetization to which his party agreed but then the government backtracked.
"If they allow me to speak in Parliament, you will see an earthquake will happen," Gandhi told reporters.
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Later addressing a rally in Ramlila Ground at Raoli Road in Muradnagar town of Ghaziabad district, Rahul termed as "a joke with the emotions of poor public" Modi's promise, during 2014 Lok Sabha polls, that every citizen would get Rs 15 lakh in his bank account as a part of his share from black money which is deposited in Swiss banks by politicians and businessmen.
On demonetisation, he said only the poor and middle class people were standing in queues outside the bank and ATMs, and the PM was saying that the step has been taken to eradicate corruption from the country.
"Not a single millionaire or any suited booted person were standing in queue outside the banks to deposit or withdraw money. Only farmers, labourers, poor and middle-class people were there with their hard-earned money," he said, while campaigning for SP-Congress joint candidate Surendra Goel.
He alleged during his two-and-a-half year rule, the PM has waived the loan of Rs 1.10 lakh crore of 60 families.
"These 60 families owe Rs 6 lakh crore to banks. All these families possess 60 per cent money of the country and bearing the advertisement expenditure of Narendra Modi and made him prime minister." he claimed and said 'Gharibon ka paisa kheechon, aur amiron ko seenchon' (Snatch the poor man's money and giving it to the rich).
Rahul said PM must understand that only six per cent cash money is related to corruption.
"Remaining 94 per cent black money is invested in real estate, lands, gold and deposited in Swiss banks. Why PM did not bring the black money back to India from Swiss banks?" he said.
Accusing Modi of not recovering loan from businessman and liquor baron Vijay Mallya, who has a debt of Rs 1,200 crore and staying in London, he alleged PM never intended to recover even a single penny of loan from him.
"Why PM has not tabled the list (of black money holders) in Parliament which has been handed over by the government of Switzerland to India? Why he is not making it public?" he said.
The Congress leader said if SP-Congress government is formed in UP, the coalition will work for poor, unemployed youths and workers and provide them loans to establish their business and industries.
