TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ After threatening an earth-shattering disclosure on demonetisation earlier, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said he wanted to expose Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal complicity in corruption but “a terrified government” didn’t let him speak in Parliament.
Though the Prime Minister and his office didn’t react to the remarks, the government dismissed the “baseless allegations” as a “sign of desperation” by the Congress.
Gandhi didn’t make the proof public. He insisted he wanted to explode the bombshell in the Lok Sabha during the ongoing winter session that has been almost completely washed away in opposition protests against the government’s November 8 move to ban Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes to combat corruption and black money.
“Read my lips. The Prime Minister is personally terrified with the information that I have. I have information on the personal corruption of the Prime Minister,” Gandhi told reporters after the Lok Sabha was adjourned for the day without conducting any business — the way it has been since the session began on November 16. The session ends on this Friday.
“If I speak, his (Modi’s) balloon will burst. He is scared. The government is scared of the information I have. Thus, they (the government) are not allowing me to speak in Parliament. Let us speak in the Lok Sabha. We will reveal everything.” The Gandhi scion also dubbed demonetisation as Modi’s “personal decision … taken against the poor of the country (that) has destroyed millions of lives”.
