KARAIKAL/VILLUPURAM: Union home minister Amit Shah on Sunday attacked Congress and DMK on the issue of corruption while addressing BJP’s rallies in Puducherry and Tamil Nadu and alleged that former Puducherry CM V Narayanasamy gave “cut money” to the “Gandhi family” from Rs 15,000 crore funds that were granted to the Union territory by the Centre over the years.
Addressing a meeting in Karaikal in Puducherry, he alleged that Congress promoted only corruption.
At another meeting in Villupuram in Tamil Nadu, he came down heavily on Congress and DMK, accusing the two parties of “indulging in a scam of over Rs 12 lakh crore” when they were in power at the Centre. “We can see 2G, 3G and 4G in Tamil Nadu. 2G is two generations of Maran (former Union ministers) family, 3G is three generations of Karunanidhi (late Tamil Nadu CM) family, 4G is four generations of Gandhi family,” Shah said.
Shah said the DMK-Congress alliance believed in dynasty politics. “On one side there is the NDA that protects India. On the other side, you have DMK and Congress that are only worried about their families, steeped in corruption, and indulge in politics of divide and rule,” he said.
“Sonia ji is worried about making Rahul PM. Stalin (DMK chief) is worried about making Udhayanidhi CM. They are not worried about the country,” he charged.
Training his guns on Rahul Gandhi, who is campaigning in Tamil Nadu, for questioning the Centre for not establishing a separate ministry for fisheries, Shah said the Modi government had indeed set up the ministry in 2019. “Rahul bhaiya … you were on vacation, you are not aware,” he said.
(With agency inputs)