Will bring back money looted from banks: PM

Prime minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that he would leave no stone unturned to ensure that money looted by rich from the banks are brought back.

Addressing an election rally here Mr Modi said, “We have opened the door of banks for poor. When banks were nationalised it was said that it was done for the poor people. However, poor people remained deprived, they could not reach door-step “

In an obvious reference to Vijay Malya episode he said, “We have started tightening the screw and some rich people who were enjoying the banks money are sweating.”

Asserting that he would ensure that all such money is returned back to bank, Mr Modi said he has ended the reign of middlemen. “I have ended the tenure of middlemen and that is why they are shouting against me. Let me tell them your days are over. You enjoyed for 60 years,” he said.

The Prime Minister said his dream is to provide house to every poor by 2022. “In order to do it if I have to empty the state exchequer, I will not hesitate in doing it,” he said. He added that the NDA government has made single-largest investment in railways since the Independence in Northeast India.

“For roadways we are investing close to Rs 12,000 crore in Assam, in Rangapara area alone around Rs 2,000 crore is invested.”

Launching an attack on Assam chief minister Tarun Gogoi, he said he is not suffering from cataract and even a blind person can say there is hardly any road in the state.

“Mr Gogoi has said that I have cataract so could not see development in Assam. But even a blind person can feel that there is no road here,” said the PM in his first rally on Sunday.

Mr Modi also mocked at the Congress party’s manifesto, saying that, “In the last 15-years Congress’ manifesto hasn’t changed and it is just copy paste of the same things with few changes here and there,” he said.