Terming demonetisation as a pre-planned move by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi to benefit industrialist friends, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said the BJP-led Central Government wants to use people’s hard earned money to waive big loans given to industrialist friends.
“Its not me who is claiming that the corporate houses have loan of `8 lakh crore but it was revealed in the recent report of Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Now Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants waive those loans through demonetisation. In last one year `1.14 lakh crore was waived but not even a single loan of farmers, traders or common man was waived,” said Kejriwal while addressing a public meeting at Refa-e-Aam club ground on Sunday.
The AAP convener had claimed to have proofs against the Prime Minister of taking bribe from the industrialist friends while holding the office of Chief Minister of Gujarat. “I used think that Modi is not a corrupt person but when I came across the papers which were recovered from industrialists by the I-T department during raids, it was a shocker moment. In these documents it has been mentioned that more than `50 crore was taken in the year 2013 from industrialist friends. After assuming power in the Centre why the investigation was not done. It means he had taken bribe,” he alleged.
Speaking on money stored in the foreign banks, Kejriwal said I have seen the file which is with the PM, in that file there were names 648 persons whose money is stored in the foreign banks. This file was made in 2011 during UPA regime. If the Central Government takes action against all 648 persons all the corruption and balck money will come to an end by the evening. “But the PM will not take action as in the list there were names of his industrialist friends. Even Mahesh Shah who declared income of `13,000 crore said on channels that it was not his money and he will tell names of industrialists to I-T officers to whom all this money belongs. But see the apathy I-T department officials are not asking anything from him,” he added.
The AAP had opened front against the demonetisation since the announcement was made by the Prime Minister. Since then it has highlighted the problems face by the common people, traders, and farmers for getting cash from the banks.
Speaking on it, Kejriwal said demonetisation plan was made by Modi and Amit Shah where first they cornered their black money and then informed industrialist friends as well as BJP leaders.