'If Congress forms govt, it will distribute your wealth to infiltrators': PM Modi thrashes proposed 'financial survey' 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has slammed the Congress party’s promise of financial survey and said it seeks to seize the “hard-earned wealth” of the public and distribute it among infiltrators and those who have more children.

Speaking at a rally in Rajasthan’s Banswara, Modi on Sunday called the Congress party’s proposed survey “serious and worrisome”.

While lashing out at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s proposed financial and institutional survey, Modi invoked a statement of former PM Manmohan Singh and said the Congress intends to snatch away the wealth of the public and distribute it to those whom Singh said have the first right on the country’s resources: Muslims.

“Previously, when they were in government, they said the first right on the country’s resources is of Muslims. What does this mean? Whom will they distribute the wealth after seizing it: to those who have more children, to infiltrators! They will give away your hard-earned money to infiltrators. Is this acceptable to you? This is what the Congress manifesto says. They will check the gold that our mothers and sisters have and then distribute it to those whom Manmohan Singh’s government said have the first right on the country’s resources,” said Modi in Hindi.

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Modi was referring to a statement by Singh as the PM of India that said the first claim on the country’s resources should be of minorities, particularly of Muslims.

“We will have to devise innovative plans to ensure that minorities, particularly the Muslim minority, are empowered to share equitably the fruits of development. These must have the first claim on resources,” said Singh in 2006, as per a PTI report from the time.

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In his address, Modi also said, “They have said that, if the Congress forms the government, there will be a survey of every person’s property. It will be investigated how much gold is with our sisters, how much silver is with our tribal brothers, and where government employees work and how much money they have.”

Invoking the dignity of women, Modi continued his attack on Congress and said the party’s proposed wealth distribution programme would snatch their self-respect.

“They have said the gold of our sisters will be uniformly redistributed? Is this acceptable? Does the government have the right to seek your property? Does the government have the right to seize your hard-earned money? In the lives of our sisters, gold is not just for show-off. It is attached to their self-respect. Their ‘mangalsutra’ is not about the value of gold but it’s about their dreams for life. You are talking about snatching that away in your manifesto: you will take gold and redistribute among everyone,” said Modi.

Modi further said the Congress party has an “urban-naxal mentality”.

“My dear brothers and sisters, this urban-naxal mentality is not going to spare even your mangalsutra,” said Modi.

At the time of the launch of the Congress manifesto on April 6, Rahul said that, if his party forms government, it will conduct a financial and institutional survey to check who has how much wealth in the country and, based on the findings, the party’s government would then undertake an exercise to redistribute that wealth.

The survey and wealth redistribution exercise is part of Rahul’s pitch for the nationwide caste census and ‘jitni aabadi utna haq (your rights as per your share in population)’ slogan.

“First, we will conduct a caste census…to know the exact population and status of backward castes, SCs, STs, minorities and other castes. After that, the financial and institutional survey will begin. Subsequently, we will take up the historic assignment to distribute the wealth of India, jobs and other welfare schemes to these sections based on their population,” said Rahul, as per The Times of India.