Modi alleges INDIA bloc formed to protect corrupt, claims he has ensured they are put behind bars
INDIA bloc held a massive rally here on Sunday against the arrest of Arvind Kejriwal, Prime Minister Narendra Modi kickstarted the NDA Lok Sabha campaign from Meerut in west Uttar Pradesh with a public meeting where he alleged that the Opposition has formed a coalition to protect the corrupt while he has ensured that those engaged in huge corruption are put behind bars.
“In the last ten years, the country has seen that we have started the fight against corruption, we have ensured that no middleman is able to steal money from the poor… I am fighting against corruption and because of this, some people are facing problems… Modi’s mantra is remove corruption and they say ‘save the corrupt’. This election is between the NDA, which is fighting against corruption and the other group, which is fighting to save the corrupt,” he said at the joint rally of NDA partners.
He took digs at the Opposition on corruption and the formation of INDI Alliance to fight him.
“Some people are rattled by the achievements of my government in the last ten years and have lost their balance… I will not stop at any cost to fight corruption. They have formed the INDI Alliance to protect the corrupt. Those engaged in huge corruption are behind bars,” Modi said.
He alleged that during Congress rule thousands of crores of rupees of small investors and the poor were wrongfully confiscated. “We have confiscated the property of the corrupt and more than Rs 17,000 Crore have been returned to those whose money had been wrongfully taken from them,” he
