Madhya Pradesh Assembly Elections 2018: Demonetisation the biggest scam, says Rahul Gandhi

Cong. chief promises loan waiver for Madhya Pradesh farmers

Support base: Rahul Gandhi meeting workers in Seoni district of Madhya Pradesh on Friday.

Flaying Prime Minister Narendra Modi for inflicting the “biggest scam” on the nation in the form of demonetisation, Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Friday assured the people of Madhya Pradesh that his party, if voted to power, would waive farm loans and turn the State into India’s agriculture hub.

Addressing campaign meetings in the State, Mr. Gandhi targeted Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan over the Vyapam scam, and accused the State government of snatching away land from tribal people and farmers and giving them away to a handful of industrialists.

‘Poor suffered the most’

At a meeting in Deori of Sagar district, he said that during the note ban in 2016, Mr. Modi made hundreds of thousands of labourers, women and small businessmen stand in serpentine queues outside banks. “Did you see any black money hoarders like Nirav Modi or Mehul Choksi queuing up,” asked Mr. Gandhi. “Through the note ban, Mr. Modi snatched the hard-earned money of the poor and put them in his cronies’ pockets.”

“In the last two years, unemployment has doubled and suicide rate among the youth has increased by 2,000%.” “China creates 50,000 jobs per day, whereas despite ‘Start Up India’ and ‘Make in India’ schemes, the Indian government creates only 450 jobs a day,” he said.

Continuing his attack on Mr. Modi over the Rafale “scam”, Mr. Gandhi accused him of being a

chowkidar (watchman) only to his industrialist cronies.

Mr. Gandhi alleged that much like demonetisation, the deal to procure the 36 French fighter jets was only aimed at enriching his industrialist friends.