Cong questions PM’s silence on key issues

New Delhi, February 19

The Congress today shot a six-point questionnaire at PM Narendra Modi, launching a comprehensive attack on him for his “silence on critical national matters”.

Party spokesperson Manish Tewari asked the PM who aided the escape of alleged bank fraudster Nirav Modi and his family when in August 2017 a Chandigarh court had declared him (the MD and Chairman of Gitanjali Jewellery Retail) an absconder.

“A competent court declares him a proclaimed offender. How is he allowed to flee the country? Who facilitated his exit? He leaves on January 1 and his family soon thereafter. Is it not too much of a coincidence that the case is registered only on January 29? An illusion of action is sought to be created when the reality is that the PM bolted the stable doors after all horses had fled,” Tewari said.

He then asked the PM what his reaction was to the story that BJP chief Amit Shah’s son’s company grew 16,000 times after he became PM.

On the Rafale jet pricing, Tewari said: “Your Defence Minister yesterday said between 2011 and 2014, the price of Rafale escalated by 300 per cent. We want to ask what the benchmark price of the jet was in 2011 and then what was its purchase price?”

The next query to PM was – “What’s your stand on the death of Judge BH Loya since you have not expressed regret on the same.” — TNS