Ravi Shankar Prasad, the union minister of law and justice reacted strongly to congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi’s constant attacks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over demonetisation on Saturday. The minister said the Congress vice president is crossing all limits of morality by speaking in such a “shameless fashion.”
“Rahul Gandhi is crossing limits of dignity. He is speaking in a shameful fashion. He is speaking a lie. For 10 years, his government remained mired by corruption. Congress’ allies kept on plundering the country in 2G and coal scams, but they did not take any action against them,” said Prasad as per a report in News Nation.
“Farmers were dying, while the nation’s money was being siphoned off into foreign countries, but they did nothing to bring back the money. Today, Narendra Modi’s government is working with honesty, but Rahul Gandhi is troubled, because the corrupt people, whose money is at stake, most of them have the protection of the Congress Party, and therefore, he never protested against black money openly,” Prasad added.
He also said that the entire nation is aware of what the congress had done to blow away black money. “We are saying it categorically, that in the 10 years of Manmohan Singh’s government, neither Congress president Sonia Gandhi nor you (Rahul Gandhi) or the government had made any effort to flush out black money and to tackle corruption.”
While praising measures taken by PM Modi’s government, he said, “Today, you can see strict action being taken and raids being conducted daily, which will be conducted even further. The country is with Modiji.”
Earlier, the Congress vice president had said that the government’s move to scrap ₹500 and ₹1000 notes turned out to be a “fire bomb.”
“Narendra Modi launched a new marketing scheme, saying that it was a surgical strike on corruption and black money. But this was not a surgical strike, it was a fire bombing on poor people,” he had said.
