KAMLA (Guj), Oct 9:
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi today targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his “silence” on a media report claiming that a company owned by BJP chief Amit Shah’s son Jay Shah saw a huge rise in its turnover after his party came to power in 2014.
Gandhi raised the issue as he began the second leg of his campaign tour in the poll-bound state from central Gujarat.
Gandhi, who landed at Ahmedabad airport this morning, travelled to the Hatijan area of the city from where he started his tour in a specially designed bus.
Referring to newspaper reports quoting a news website ‘The Wire’, Gandhi said the company owned by Shah’s son grew 16,000 times in a short span.
“This is a strange world. In 2014, the company was nothing. Modi ji came (to power in 2014) and launched ‘start up India’, ‘make in India’, then introduced demonetisation and GST. This destroyed small businessmen and farmers,” Gandhi told a gathering at Kamla village in Kheda district.
“But from this fire, one company comes up. It was nothing in 2014 but in a few months it became so big that this company’s worth of Rs 50,000 rose to Rs 80 crore.
Referring to entrepreneurship in Gujarat, Gandhi asked whether Gujaratis, who are adept at running businesses, can do it.
Recalling Modi’s assertion that he would neither engage in corruption nor allow it to happen, the Congress leader said, “Now when Amit Shah’s son’s company has grown 16,000 times, Modi ji has gone silent,” Gandhi said. (PTI)
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