Referring to 'Pariksha Pe Charcha' event, recently addressed by the prime minister, Gandhi said, "PM Modi tells kids how to pass exams for 2 hours, but won't speak for 2 minutes on the 22,000 Cr banking scam"

Chairperson of the Congress Parliamentary Party, Sonia Gandhi, former prime minister Manmohan Singh and senior leaders including A K Antony, Ahmed Patel, Ghulam Nabi Azad and Mallikarjun Kharge attended the meeting.

Rahul Gandhi said that the scam began with the decision to scrap Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes from the economy on November 8, 2016.

The BJP fielded Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to counter the Congress charge that the scam took place in 2017 under the Modi government when the letters of understanding were signed by the Punjab National Bank in favour of Nirav Modi.

The 34-member steering committee, including the Congress president, his mother and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi, former prime minister Manmohan Singh and the party's general secretaries, will meet here tomorrow.

In a widely shared tweet, Gandhi wrote about their flight from India: "The scamster's escape formula: La(Mo)+Ni(Mo) ----- Bha(Go)".

Rahul Gandhi's tweet came after Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi posted a picture of Prime Minister Modi with Indian CEOs at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January.

Three days back, Yeddyurappa had hit out at Rahul Gandhi for reportedly visiting a temple after eating "Javari chicken" during his tour of northern parts of the poll-bound state.

The Gandhi scion, who was interacting with professionals and the business community at the end of his four-day campaign in poll-bound Karnataka, said that NDA ministers were not operating independently as RSS men were planted in each ministry.

Rahul Gandhi also alleged that ministers in the NDA government were not operating independently, as RSS men were stationed in each ministry.

Congress president also attacked the prime minister, saying while he was "dithering", soldiers were paying with their blood because of the "opportunistic" alliance in Jammu and Kashmir.

Rahul, who has been highly critical of the manner in which the tax was implemented and had termed it "Gabbar Singh Tax", said that a "huge amount" of confusion related to the GST would also be removed.

Facing the charge of practising "soft Hindutva", Congress president Rahul Gandhi today defended his visits to temples and religious places, asserting that he would continue it.

Addressing the workers at Zila school ground in Muzaffarpur on Sunday, RSS chief had said it may take Indian Army six-seven months to get battle-ready, but if need be RSS can prepare an army within three days

Rahul Gandhi on Sunday asked PM Modi to stop giving speeches on the past and start working, saying he did not have much time before completing his term.

The Congress president, continuing with the first leg of his poll campaign in north Karnataka for the second day, said when the BJP was in power in the state, there were "scams one after the other".

Gandhi launched the Congress campaign at a rally at Hosapete in Ballari district, as he undertook a four-day tour of northern Karnataka to drum up support for the party in the coming assembly polls.

Nagendra presented a Valmiki statue to Gandhi on the stage after he was welcomed into the Congress party.

Highlighting the way in which Congress in the state has run the government in the last five years, Rahul said, “we will do even better in the next five years after coming to power.”

Rahul Gandhi alleged that in his one-hour long speech in Parliament this week, Modi did not speak about the burning issues pertaining to agrarian problem, unemployment, tribals and Dalits. Rather, he chose to speak about the past.