On Sunday Rahul Gandhi made false claims that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was lying and trying to divert people’s attention from real issues after the later said that the Congress will re-distribute the country’s wealth to those who have more children at an election rally in Banswara, Rajasthan.
The BJP hit out with a tweet of a 2006 video of then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh where he is heard saying that Muslims have the primary claim on the country’s resources.
"We will have to devise innovative plans to ensure that minorities, particularly the Muslim minority, are empowered to share equitably in the fruits of development. They must have the first claim on resources."
– Dr Manmohan Singh, 9th Dec, 2006
The Congress doesn’t trust their… https://t.co/MWAf8uP23N pic.twitter.com/EDAKfasXT8
— BJP (@BJP4India) April 21, 2024
In the video, Singh is heard saying, ‘We will have to devise innovative plans to ensure that minorities, particularly the Muslim minority, are empowered to share equitably in the fruits of development. They must have the first claim on resources’.
PM Modi said in the same rally, ‘The Congress manifesto says they will calculate the gold with mothers and sisters, get information about it and then distribute that property. They will distribute it to whom-Manmohan Singh’s government had said that Muslims have the first right on the country’s assets’.
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