Mocking the Prime Minister's 'chowkidar' campaign, Congress president Rahul Gandhi Monday said Narendra Modi was attempting to convert the whole country into chowkidars after being "caught" in the Rafale fighter jet deal.
Attacking Modi's "Main bhi chowkidar' (I too am watchman) blitz, he said "Chowkidar was caught indulging in theft and as he was caught, chowkidar says the whole of Hindustan is chowkidar.
"But before getting caught, the entire Hindustan was not chowkidar."
He told the crowd, "You had said- Chowkidar chor hai. But yesterday and day-before-yesterday Narendra Modi was attempting to turn whole country into chowkidars."
Gandhi said, "when he became Prime Minister, he said don't make me Prime Minister, make me chowkidar, do you remember? He had never said make whole of Hindustan into chowkidaars."
He also said, "If the prime Minister wasn't guilty, he should have said- I'm investigating this thing , the people who are responsible are going to jail..why is he not doing that?"
He said he could give a list of defence contracts that Anil Ambani and "Modi's friends have been given, one after the other, and they have only got caught on Rafale, which happens to be the really big contract in the world. So that's why everybody is saying chowkidar chor hai."
Gandhi said in the country today, there is an environment "which is angry, where there is tension, viciousness-you don't just close your mind, you close the entire ecosystem."
"What is happening today is India's liberal nature, India's open system, India's institutions are being attacked, they are being suppressed.....with the bad environment you are going nowhere."
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