‘Whose money was it?’: Rahul Gandhi points to Ambani wedding to target PM Modi | India News – Times of India

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi (File photo)

NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi, leader of opposition in Lok Sabha, took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday, accusing him of “creating a structure” that enables only a select few to spend thousands of crores for lavish weddings.
Comparing Ambani’s youngest son’s recent wedding and a farmer’s average financial standing in the country, Rahul Gandhi said Ambani spent crores on the wedding while a farmer can only organise a wedding after being “drowned in debt”.
“Have you seen Ambani wedding? Ambani spent crores on the wedding. Whose money is this? It is your money. …You take bank loans to marry your children but Narendra Modi ji has made such a structure under which the selected 25 people can spend crores on weddings, but a farmer can organise a wedding only after drowning in debt. If this is not an attack on the Constitution, then what is?” Rahul said while addressing a public rally in Bahadurgarh at poll-bound Haryana.
The Congress leader further alleged that PM Modi “helps Adani and Ambani, destroys the employment system of the country and then they attack the Constitution together”.
Read also:
‘Agniveer to snatch pensions’: Rahul Gandhi says govt wants to benefit Adani
‘Unacceptable,’ says Rahul Gandhi as Delhi police detains Sonam Wangchuk at Singhu border
“When the people from RSS fill their own people in institutions of the country and the Dalits and backward classes do not get any place then they are attacking the constitution. The BJP tries to destroy the Constitution and we to protect it. When PM Modi waives off loans worth Rs 16 lakh crores of billionaires and does not waive the loan of farmers, students then they are attacking the Constitution,” the Rae Bareli MP was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.
This is not the first time when Rahul Gandhi has criticised PM Modi for allegedly helping what the Congress scion says “industrialist friends through favourable policies”.
In the last Parliament session, Rahul claimed that Adani and Ambani have a monopoly over all the money in India.
“Two industrialists are controlling the country… If I cannot take their names in the House, then I will have to say something, I will just say A1 and A2,” Rahul Gandhi said in a dig at the ruling BJP.
Even in the run-up to this year’s Lok Sabha polls, Rahul Gandhi accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of working for the “benefit of only Adani and Ambani and a small group of about 25 industrialists while neglecting to provide employment to people of the country”.
The Congress leader also alleged that the Modi government had waived loans up to 16 lakh crore of these 20-25 individuals.