Bhopal: On the eve of voting for the fifth phase of Lok Sabha elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday questioned Congress president Rahul Gandhi’s association with a UK firm, Backops, saying his “scams were getting exposed from land, air and water”.
Addressing an election meeting in district headquarters of Sagar in Madhya Pradesh, Mr Modi said the company’s name was akin to the Congress leader’s actions of indulging in “back office operations” and not from the front. “He never worked for the company from the front and did operations from behind the curtains,” the PM said.
The PM said the Union home ministry has served a notice on Mr Gandhi following a representation by BJP MP Subramanian Swamy claiming that the Congress leader was associated with Backops firm as one of its directors.
“The company was shut in 2009. But, in 2011, when the UPA was in power at the Centre, a partner of the company was awarded a submarine deal contract. How did he get the deal? What was his experience in submarine?” Mr Modi wondered.
He said since the matter has come to light, the “naamdar and his raagdarbaris” (sycophants) have gone silent. “The Bofors gun, helicopter (AgustaWestland chopper) and now submarine, as deep as you dig... Whether ‘jal’ (water), ‘nabh’ (air) and ‘thal’ (land), naamdar’s acts are coming out.”
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