BJP using black money to contest Assembly polls: Kamal Nath

Accusing BJP of using black money in the assembly polls, senior Congress leader Kamal Nath today said that before asking for votes in Uttarakhand Prime Minister Narendra Modi should first give an account of his two-and-a-half years in office and 13 years of BJP rule in Madhya Pradesh.
Nath, who was here to campaign for the party for the February 15 Assembly elections, accused the Centre of informing it's industrialist friends about demonetisation in advance and securing the money it needed for the polls.
"Now the same black money is being used openly by the party to contest elections. BJP candidates are spending heavily in these polls which obviously they are not doing by selling their wives' jewellery," he said.

Calling Modi a seasoned player of the politics of rhetoric, he said now the PM will come here, thump his chest and tell the people that he was fighting against black money.
"Before asking for votes for BJP, PM should give an account of his two-and-a-half years in office and the states governed by his party especially Madhya Pradesh," the Congress leader said.
Talking about MP which is his home state, Nath said BJP has been in power there for 13 years and "biggest achievements" of this long tenure have been Vyapam scam, growing unemployment and stalled development.

Nath also accused BJP of toppling democratically elected

governments in Arunachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, saying people now understood this and will side with the truth.
When asked how would people of the state vote for Congress which withdrew the industrial package from the state, he said the party had subsequently extended its tenure.
Then posing the same question to Modi government, he asked why it had not extended the facility to the state despite being in power for two-and-a-half years.
Asked about Harish Rawat's 'Bahubali and Rowdy Rawat' videos which had gone viral, Nath said they were not the party's videos as it doesn't believe in this kind of politics.

On Congress's rebel MLAs who had been fielded by BJP, he said they will be taught a lesson by the people.
Congress will make history by getting re-elected to power for a second consecutive term, he claimed.