‘I Am 50% in Population, I Want 50% in Wealth’: Rahul Gandhi Again Stirs Poll Pot with 'Redistribution' Ladle

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi. (File photo/PTI)

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi once again advocated for wealth to be redistributed as per the proportion of various sections in India’s population while speaking to people at a Nyay Manch event on Saturday. The Bharatiya Janata Party is planning to use this as more ammunition to attack the Wayanad MP and his party amid the Lok Sabha polls, questioning the economic model that he is promising.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has warned against the “wealth redistribution” pitch of Rahul Gandhi, even though the Congress has said that this is not a part of its manifesto. Defence minister Rajnath Singh told News18 that Gandhi’s model would lead to a financial slowdown.

“How much wealth is in the hands of the backwards, poor of general castes, women…we will ascertain through an economic survey who has how much wealth. Then a new politics will start. A person will say that if they have 50% people but 2% of the wealth, he will say he wants 50% wealth. Seedhi baat hai…this is our thought,” Gandhi said, answering the query of an OBC person who was on the stage.

The Congress leader said 90% of the people in the country, comprising Dalits, tribals, and backward classes, don’t know how much population they account for. “In India’s wealth, what proportion is in your hands, you don’t know…how much wealth does the OBC population have? No one knows. We will do a caste census and then an economic survey. We will ascertain who has the wealth. Every institution will undergo a survey,” Gandhi told a group of youngsters.

The Congress leader said a caste census would further reveal how many OBCs were in the media, corporate world, judiciary, and the armed forces. “Hamare log kahan baithe hain, sab pata chal jayega,” he said.

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