PTI, PALANPUR: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi targeted Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani today over the SEBI slapping fine on his firm for alleged manipulative share trade, and asked the prime minister to speak out on the issue.
Speaking during his poll campaign tour of Gujarat, he claimed that the share market regulator has termed Rupani “beimaan” (dishonest) and imposed fine on him. Gandhi asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to speak out against his “dishonest” chief minister. “Gujarat is more corrupt than the entire country. Surat businessmen told me that policemen come to their units every two minutes (allegedly to demand bribe),” he said. The 47-year-old Congress leader was addressing a public meeting here in Banaskantha district on the second day of his campaign tour of North Gujarat.
“Jay Shah, son of (BJP chief) Amit Shah, increased the turnover of his company from Rs 50,000 to Rs 80 crore in a few months after the BJP came to power in 2014. The people of Gujarat know this cannot be done without corruption,” he said. “Some days ago, the SEBI said your chief minister is beimaan (dishonest) and they fined him. “Modiji used to say ‘na khaoonga, na khane doonga’ (I will neither take graft nor allow corruption). Please open your mouth on this subject now. But he is silent. Now his slogan is ‘na bolta hu, na bolne dunga’ (I will not speak myself and won’t allow others to do so’),” Gandhi said.
