New Delhi, Mar 6: Claiming that scams of Rs 73,635 cr have come to light during the rule of the
NDA at the centre, the Congress on Tuesday questioned the continued silence of
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in the matter.
The Congress also charged the NDA government of
running away from a debate on the issue in Parliament.
Talking to reporters here, AICC media incharge
Randeep Surjewala said,’’fraud, malfeasance, bank loot, cheating and swindling
of banks and common people are getting unravelled every day, even as the PM and
the FM are on an indefinite ‘maun vrat’. The money swindled in the bank scams
unearthed recently comes to Rs 54318 cr. In addition, shocking information
available through the RTI on February 9, 2018, now reflects that under the BJP
government’s watch, frauds and scams of Rs 19317 cr have been reported in
India’s economic capital i.e the Economic offences wing, Mumbai alone in the
last three years. This takes to Rs 73,635 cr the total amount of frauds during
the rule of the NDA government. What is even more astonishing is that 184
accused in these scams and frauds have escaped. The Modi and the Fadnavis
governments appeared to have given a ‘one way ticket’ to ‘cheat and scout’.’’
Questioning the continued silence of the Prime
Minister Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on the issue, Mr
Surjewala said,’’it is time to tell the people as to how many fraudsters have
already left for foreign shores and tax heavens. Even more inexcusable is the
fact that out of Rs 19,317 cr, a pittance of Rs 2.5 cr could be recovered.
India demands a switch from ‘Nirav Modi (silent Modi) to ‘Bol Modi’ .’’
Earlier, addressing reporters, leader of the
Congress in the Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge charged the government of running
away from a debate on the bank scams.
’’The entire opposition is united on their
demand for a discussion in parliament on the bank scams that have come to light
over the past few days. We had given an adjournment notice under rule 50 to
discuss the PNB scam and other bank frauds. However, the business advisory
committee listed in the agenda a discussion under rule 193 in which the wording
and the subject has been completely changed to include the irregularities in
the banking sector since its inception.
If the government wants a discussion on this
subject, it can be held as a separate debate. However, the opposition wants a
discussion in the recent bank frauds. In this regard, I have talked to leader
of the All India Trinamool Congress Sudip Bandhopadhyay, BJD leader Bhartruhari
Mahtab and several others and they also agree on this issue. However, the
government is running away from the discussion on this,’’he said.
He said that party leaders had talked to Lok
Sabha Speaker on this issue but their demand was not considered.
He said that till the opposition demand for
discussion on the PNB and other bank scams was accepted, they would continue to
agitate. UNI
