'Stop behaving as if you're guilty': Rahul to PM Modi on bank fraud

February 18, 2018 14:46

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi tweeted again today, demanding Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley speak out on the Rs 11,300 crore banking fraud involving celebrity diamond jeweller Nirav Modi.

The Congress has launched an all-out attack on the PM over the issue, claiming that a fraud of such scale could not have taken place without "top-level protection".

At the party's steering committee meeting yesterday, Gandhi had said instead of spending time to talk about countering exam-related stress to schoolchildren, the prime minister should tell people what is going to be done to Nirav Modi and "what is he going to do to make sure that the banking system is safe".

His tweet today was on the same lines: "PM Modi tells kids how to pass exams for 2 hrs, but won't speak for 2 mins on the 22,000Cr banking scam.

Mr Jaitley is in hiding.

Stop behaving as if you're guilty! Speak up."

The Central Bureau of Investigation has already asked the Interpol to arrest the 48-year-old, who is currently in New York. The jeweller, his family and uncle and business partner Mehul Choksi had fled the country on January 1, before the agency had filed a case against him.

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