PM: Don’t return Jan Dhan black money

Lucknow, December 3

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today urged the poor, who have parked the black money of the rich in their Jan Dhan accounts, not to return the amount to the original owners. 

Addressing the fourth Parivartan Rally at Moradabad, the PM said, “I am applying my mind to work out a way in which such people will go to jail and the money can remain in your account... The rich will line up outside your house but do not give them back their black money. 

“If they persist, threaten them that you will write to Modi or ask them to furnish proof that the money in your account belongs to them.”

Once again turning his focus on demonetisation, Modi said for the first time the rich and the resourceful had queued up outside the houses of the poor,  appealing to them to deposit their ill-gotten wealth in their accounts.

Modi warned those hurt by the decision trying to “provoke” the poor against him, saying he was committed to eradicating corruption and poverty by using the recovered black money for the welfare of the poor.

He claimed to be heading the first government in independent India which was accountable to the people for “every paisa” spent. He said many a government had made proclamations from the Red Fort, but it was his government that had fulfilled these.

Referring to the hardship being faced by the people, he reminded them of the queues for kerosene, wheat, sugar and other essentials in which they had stood for years. “The queues outside banks will be the last in India,” he promised.

The PM said it was an irony that in Moradabad there were 1,000 villages without electricity here, of which 950 had now been electrified. — TNS