Hitting back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for accusing the Congress of doing "nothing" while in power, party president Rahul Gandhi said on Saturday nobody had committed the "foolishness" of demonetisation and the "Gabbar Singh Tax" in the last 70 years.
Addressing rallies in Raebareli and Amethi constituencies of Uttar Pradesh, Gandhi also assured the people that implementing the minimum income guarantee scheme, Nyay, was possible.
"In the past 70 years, the foolishness of demonetisation and Gabbar Singh Tax (Gandhi's coinage for the goods and services tax or the GST) was not done by anyone," he said at a rally in Unchahar town of Raebareli district, where United Progressive Alliance chairperson and his mother, Sonia Gandhi, is seeking re-election.
The Congress chief's remarks come against the backdrop Modi repeatedly holding the grand old party responsible for all the "ills" since the country got Independence.
"The 'chowkidar' (watchman) has done 'chori' (theft) of factories and employment of people of Raebareli and Amethi," Rahul Gandhi said.
"Where are Anil Ambani, Nirav Modi, Vijay Mallya, Lalit Modi — in jail or outside?" he asked. Rahul Gandhi also accused Modi of not wanting to fill 22 lakh vacant Government posts.