Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday attacked Narendra Modi over the alleged financial support of LIC to debt-ridden Infrastructure Leasing & Finance Services (IL&FS) and asked whether the Prime Minister 'loves financial scams'.
Taking to Twitter he said the Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) of India is the country's symbol of trust and common people have saved every rupee to buy its policies.
'Modi ji, your favourite private company IL&FS is about to turn bankrupt. You are trying to save it by putting the money of LIC. Why?' he asked in a tweet in Hindi.
'...Why are you using LIC money to save fraudsters. For you, hope IL&FS does not mean I love financial scams,' he said.
In another tweet in Hindi, Rahul alleged that in 2007, Modi as the then Gujarat chief minister gave the Rs 70,000-crore 'Gift City' project to IL&FS in which nothing has happened till now and alleged that a fraud had come to light.
Rahul alleged that in 2018, Modi was trying to give a bailout of Rs 91,000-crore to the debt-ridden IL&FS through public money in the LIC and the State Bank of India. 'Chowkidar ki dari mein tinka (the watchman has a guilty conscious),' he said.
