Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday launched a blistering attack on the Congress after its senior leader Sam Pitroda apparently advocated an inheritance tax law in the country for wealth redistribution.
Speaking at a public meeting in Chhattisgarh's Surguja, PM Modi alleged that the Congress wants to fill its own coffers by imposing ever higher taxes and not allowing people to pass on their hard-earned wealth to their children.
"The advisor [Sam Pitroda] of the 'prince' and the 'royal family' had said some time ago that more taxes should be imposed on the middle class," said PM Modi. "Congress says that it will impose an inheritance tax, and it will also impose tax on the inheritance received from parents. Your children will not get the wealth that you accumulate through your hard work, rather the claws of the Congress will snatch it away from you."
The Prime Minister said Pitroda's remarks had exposed the dangerous intentions of the Congress. Making a play on LIC's erstwhile slogan, he jibed, "Congress has one mantra -- to loot people zindagi ke sath bhi, zindagi ke baad bhi (in life and even after death)."
Without taking any names, PM Modi targeted the Gandhi family and said, "Those people who considered the entire Congress party as their ancestral property and handed it over to their children, now do not want Indians to pass on their property to their children."
