Rahul Gandhi yet to mature as a politician, says Ravi Shankar Prasad

Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Friday charged that the “note ban” was Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s conspiracy to “fleece” the poor and help the super-rich.

On the other hand, Sonia Gandhi has been reaching out to Opposition leaders who had made common cause with the party to oppose the demonetisation decision of the Modi government during the Parliament session.

“This is not all”.

The Chief Minister said that government had opened 42 colleges and 1329 schools during the last four years and had created 5608 posts of different categories in education department.

On November 22, 2014, there was a raid on Sahara company.

Kejriwal, who has also been making the same allegations at public rallies, sought a Supreme Court-monitored probe into the charges.

Gandhi also added that the poor have been the most affected post-demonetisation.

He said that poor people are standing in long queues, daily wagers going without money and farmers have no access to cash to buy seeds to sow in the Rabi season.

Taking a jibe a former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, he said poverty is his legacy adding Singh’s image is clean but a number of major scams had taken place during his tenure. He alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘balloon will burst’ if he is allowed to say what he wants to say in the Lok Sabha.

Donning a Himachali cap with dry followers atop, Gandhi, in his 40-minute speech in Hindi, said the Congress was not against a cashless system but it should not be imposed and it should not be an “excuse”.

Though Mr Rahul Gandhi did not give any detail, the sensational charge had a battery of Union Ministers mocking the congress leader, calling him desperate and frustrated. Rahul Gandhi is just bluff and bluster. “People will never believe it”, he said.

This gift of Rs 36 lakh crore is the actual economic robbery not the one which Gandhi is talking about, he told reporters here. Eighteen-odd Congress leaders will fan out across Maharashtra to prepare a white paper on the note ban effect and conduct press conferences to attack the loopholes in implementation.