Gehlot urges PM Modi to tell if he was elected on white or black money

Our Correspondent 

Jaipur, November 27 

Claiming that all political parties accept donations in elections, former Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot has attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi, asking him to honestly tell the nation if he was elected to the top office using white or black money? 

“Instead of blaming the opposition parties on black money row, PM should honestly tell the nation what kind of money, black or white, he used to win the 2014 general elections,” Gehlot said in Bhilwara on Saturay.

“If you earnestly confess that you won on white money, then what ever you say, we will accept that. Otherwise you (PM) shall follow Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s five point programme to contain corruption and black money prevailing in the system”, Gehlot said. 

“All political parties accept donations to contest elections. This is from where the black money generates. Unless this system is not finished, it would not be easy to end black money. After December 30 (last date of changing old scrapped currency notes), new black money would be generated and accumulated again elsewhere”, Gehlot admitted.

In this hour of crisis due to demonetisation, the prime minister should take into confidence the opposition parties instead of blaming them, he said. However Gehlot did not elaborate Sonia Gandhi’s five point agenda for eliminating corruption and black money.