TIL Desk/National/Panaji/ Mounting a blistering attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi today said the demonetisation drive launched by him was “firebombing of 99 per cent honest people” and not a “surgical strike”. The Congress vice president, however, did not speak about “personal corruption of the PM” he had threatened to reveal recently..
The attack came within hours of Modi accusing the Congress of putting self-interest above the country and sought to paint it as a votary of corruption at a BJP Parliamentary Party meeting in Delhi.
“Narendra Modi got up on November 8 and announced that the money which is in your pocket has now turned into mere paper. This not a surgical strike on black money but it is firebombing of the 99 per cent of honest people of India,” Rahul said addressing a rally at Fatorda near here.
Rahul said demonetisation was akin to 200-300 aircraft “firebombing” cities during the world war II, destroying them completely within 25 minutes. “The impact of firebombing was far worse than the atom bomb. Narendra Modi has done similar firebombing through demonetisation and burnt entire India,” he said. He said, “As Modi did not allow me to speak in Parliament, I am speaking at this public meeting.”
