NRC And NPR Will Be More Disastrous Than Demonetisation – Rahul Gandhi

Picture : Twitter / ANI

Congress leader and former party president Rahul Gandhi while attacking the government over the issue of the National Population Register (NPR) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC), said these exercises will be more disastrous than demonetisation in November 2016.

The basic idea of these exercises is to ask all poor people whether they are Indian or not, he told reporters on the side-lines of the flag-hoisting ceremony at the All India Congress Committee headquarters in New Delhi on the occasion of 135th foundation day of the party.

His (Prime Minister Narendra Modi) 15 friends will not have to show any document and the money generated will go into the pockets of those 15 people,” he said.

Gandhi has previously accused the government of working for select few ‘crony capitalists’.

“This will be more disastrous for the people then demonetisation. This will have twice the impact of demonetisation,” he said.

On the BJP calling him a ‘liar’, Gandhi again attacked Modi over his remarks that there were no detention centres in the country.

“You would have seen my tweet. You would have seen Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech in which he is saying there are no detention centres in India and you would have seen the video of the detention centre. You can decide who is lying,” he told reporters.

On Thursday, Gandhi had attacked Modi over his remarks that there were no detention centres in the country, alleging that ‘RSS’s Prime Minister lies to Bharat Mata’.

Taking to Twitter, he had also attached a video clip in which Modi accused the Congress, its allies and ‘urban Naxals’ of spreading the rumour that Muslims will be sent to detention centres.

Earlier Rahul Gandhi tweeted on the Congress Foundation Day, when he wrote, let us acknowledge the selfless contribution of millions of Congress men & women through the ages.