BJP president Amit Shah hit back at Congress president Sonia Gandhi here on Saturday for describing the Narendra Modi government as “pro-corporate”. “Sonia ji , in your [United Progressive Alliance] regime, who handed over mines to corporates? The BJP government conducted auction of coal mines and gained Rs. 2 lakh crore. Rs. 1,09,000 crore was raised through the spectrum auction. Now all this money is going to be used for the relief and welfare of the farmers of the country,” he said at a party workers’ rally.
“We talk of farmers, but the Opposition has no moral right for that because their family usurped huge chunks of land of farmers in Haryana and Rajasthan,” he said.
Mr. Shah said the Opposition parties were carrying out propaganda against the Modi government and their claims that BJP was not concerned about the situation of farmers were baseless. The government would not have gone for auctions if it was pro-corporate.
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He said it was a government of the poor that had taken steps to eradicate corruption.