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Rahul to Modi: Waiting for answers on corruption charges from ‘Maun sahab’
Gujarat assembly elections 2017: Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi has been asking PM Narendra Modi a question everyday on various aspects — including vikas, unemployment among youth, women safety and education — of the state’s development.
Terming Prime Minister Narendra Modi “Maun sahab” or one who keeps mum, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Monday slammed him for not appointing a Lokpal and maintaining silence over allegations of corruption against the government, including on BJP president Amit Shah’s son Jay.
In his 13th question, as part of a series of posers to the BJP government at the Centre and Gujarat, Gandhi said: “They promised to provide an accountable government. Then why have they sidelined the Lokpal? GSPC, electricity-metro scam, there is silence on the Shah-Zada (Amit Shah’s son Jay Shah) and eagerness to fill the pockets of friends.
“The list is long and we are eagerly waiting for answers from the ‘Maun saheb’. For whose ‘acche din’ (good days) did you form the government?”
Gandhi’s question of the day comes amid a political storm triggered by Modi when he alleged that Pakistan was meddling in the Gujarat elections. The Prime Minister questioned some senior Congress leaders’ recent meeting with Pakistan officials, including the country’s high commissioner to India. (Catch live updates here)
Pakistan responded a day later, saying Modi’s allegations were “utterly baseless and irresponsible”.
Polling for the first phase of Gujarat assembly elections was held on December 9, the second phase is on December 14.
The Congress vice president has earlier put posers on unemployment among youth, women safety, education, health, tribal issues, “undue benefit” to electricity companies, state debt and the Prime Minister’s flagship ‘Housing for All’ scheme.
