Over the alleged financial support of Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) to debt-ridden Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS), Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Sunday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Gandhi asked whether the PM "loves financial scams".
"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?" asked Rahul Gandhi in a tweet.
He said LIC is the country's symbol of trust and common people have saved money to buy its policies.
He further asked from PM that why he is using LIC money to save fraudsters?
Taking a jibe at PM Modi he said, “For you, hope IL&FS does not mean I love financial scams."
Gandhi, in another tweet in Hindi alleged that in 2007, Modi as 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.
In comparison, Gandhi alleged that in 2018, Prime Minister Modi is trying to give a bailout of Rs 91,000 crore to debt-ridden IL&FS through public money in the LIC and the State Bank of India.
(With PTI inputs)
