Modi promises the return of fraudsters

Team Udayavani, May 9, 2018, 12:07 PM IST

Bengaluru: In an election campaign here on Tuesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared that businessmen who had looted and fled the country would be brought back. This comes as a response to former PM Manmohan Singh’s comment that fraudsters had looted the banks of the country and escaped to foreign countries. Mr. Modi said that he would ensure that these fraudsters would be returned to the country- subtly referring to liquor baron Vijay Mallya, diamond merchant Nirav Modi and former cricket administrator Lalit Modi.

He also retorted to Mr. Singh’s statement by criticising for running a government which was “remote-controlled” by the then Congress President Sonia Gandhi, thereby ruining the condition  of the Indian economy. He claimed that his government had improved the country’s financial condition in the last four years, making it a favourable destination for investors. Moreover, world economic forums were also giving a respectable position to India because of its contribution to the economic condition of the world.

Mr. Modi claimed that during the reign of the Congress, certain firms held thousands of bank accounts and operated hundreds of companies from a single room. He said that he had succeeded in closing down four lakh of such fake companies, because of which the affected people had begun the “oust Modi” campaign.

He also attacked the Congress government in the State for their election manifesto, alleging it of containing so many grammatical errors in every sentence that it was an insult to the Kannada language. He accused Chief Minister Siddaramaiah of “derailing” the administration of Bengaluru, placing it “in the stranglehold of a troika”.

His comments on the “troika” were clearly referring to Minister K.J. George who is the prime accused in the murder of a cop, another Minister R. Roshan Baig who is guilty of land grabbing and other conspiracies and an MLA N.A. Haris whose son is attacking the commoners of the city.

Mr. Modi also met a young woman, named Sara, in the rally, who had written to the PM about the rejection of her plea for an education loan. The PMO directed the bank to grant her the loan, using which she completed her MBA and secured a job in an MNC.