'Beware, Hide Your Property Papers': Smriti Irani's Appeal To Amethi Residents, Says 'If Robert Vadra Knows...'

Union Minister Smriti Irani on Wednesday joined in on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “wealth redistribution” jibe at Congress and mocked Rahul Gandhi along with his brother-in-law Robert Vadra saying “every person now needs to hide their property papers”. Irani insinuated that if Vadra knows Jagdishpur, he will confiscate people’s wealth and “redistribute” it, as promised by Congress in its election manifesto.

“… There is one thing to worry about, whether Rahul Gandhi knows something or not, his brother-in-law knows Jagdishpur. People of Jagdishpur need to beware now. If his brother-in-law knows Jagdishpur, every village, every house, every person now needs to hide their property papers,” Smriti Irani said in Uttar Pradeh’s Amethi.

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The BJP leader’s remarks came amid a row over PM Modi’s “wealth redistribution” remark and speculations over Rahul Gandhi’s brother-in-law, Robert Vadra’s possible debut in electoral politics from the Amethi Parliamentary seat.

Controversy continued following the prime minister’s remarks regarding the Congress party’s wealth redistribution promise.

Addressing a Lok Sabha poll rally in Rajastha’s Banswara, PM Modi suggested if the Congress came to power, it would redistribute the wealth of people to Muslims.

Slamming the grand old party, he said, “They have said that if the Congress government comes into power, it will survey everyone’s property. They will investigate how much gold our sisters have… Our Adivasi families own silver. How much silver they have will be recorded. They will check how much property and money the government employees own. This is not it, they also said that the gold owned by our sisters and their other properties will be equally redistributed.”

The prime minister was referring to Rahul Gandhi’s statement from earlier this month, where he said that if voted into office in the Lok Sabha elections, Congress would conduct a financial and institutional survey to ascertain who is in possession of the wealth of the country, and would then undertake an exercise to redistribute the same.

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