BJP reels out documents to accuse UPA of favouring big corporates

Modi governmentCongress vice-president Rahul Gandhi’s accusation that the Modi government is “pro-corporate”, BJP shared data intended to counter the Congress’ claims that the NDA dispensation is “Adani-Ambani ki Sarkar”.

Responding to the charge that the government has benefitted corporates and Rahul Gandhi’s allegations that Modi received money from Sahara and Birla groups as Gujarat CM, BJP said it was NDA that actually initiated recoveries of UPA-era loans to major business entities.

“During the UPA regime, Adani was granted loan of Rs 72,000 crore and Ambani group was given loans worth Rs 1,13,000 crore. The process of recovering loans from several corporates, including these two, was initiated only after PM Narendra Modi took over in 2014,” said BJP spokesperson Shrikant Sharma.

The BJP spokesperson shared a long list of bank statements and other documents with media to prove his point that Congress was more into distributing “khairat” (doles) and it was the Modi government that has been in the “wasooli” (recovery) mode.