“Stop Behaving As If You Are Guilty”: Rahul Gandhi To PM Modi On Bank Fraud

New Delhi : 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 Prime Minister 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, Mr 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: