With Rahul Gandhi presiding over the Congress Working Committee meet\u00a0in\u00a0Delhi for the second time on Saturday, senior party leaders discussed the issues of the National Register of Citizens (NRC) final draft, bank fraud cases, corruption, Rafale deal, farmers’ woes and unemployment.<\/p>\n
Speaking\u00a0at a press conference, held after the meeting concluded, Congress\u00a0communication-in-charge Randeep Singh Surjewala launched a scathing attack\u00a0at\u00a0the Narendra Modi-government, accusing the prime minister\u00a0of misleading India.\u00a0Congress leader Ashok Gehlot who was also present at the conference said that the party has started preparations for upcoming Assembly elections in four states<\/p>\n
Surjewala also said that absconding businessman Mehul Choksi was also brought up during the CWC meeting. “Mehul Choksi got Antigua and Barbuda citizenship. We discussed how the MEA, in a conspiracy at the direction of the Modi government, helped\u00a0him get a citizenship in Antigua in January 2017,” said Surjewala, adding, “Between 2015 and 2017, 42 cases were lodged against Choksi, Nirav Modi and their companies.”<\/p>\n
He also claimed that Choksi had promised the court\u00a0that he would not leave the country. “Choksi, in an affidavit to the Gujarat High Court,\u00a0in 2016 said that he will not leave the country or deposit his passport. If you (government) knew about this in 2017, why did Modi give him a clean chit?” asked Surjewala.<\/p>\n
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