According to sources india NATIONAL CONGRESS' target='_blank' title='congress-Latest Updates, Photos, Videos are a click away, CLICK NOW'>congress leader rahul gandhi on january 20 alleged that prime minister narendra modi extracts wealth from India's poor and gives it to his "crony capitalist friends" and the big power brokers he is dependent on. Meanwhile Gandhi's attack on the prime minister came over an Oxfam report which claimed that India's richest 1 per cent hold more than four-times the wealth held by 953 million people who make up for the bottom 70 per cent of the country's population.
The former india NATIONAL CONGRESS' target='_blank' title='congress-Latest Updates, Photos, Videos are a click away, CLICK NOW'>congress president said in a tweet "Modi extracts wealth from India's poor and gives it to his crony capitalist friends & the big power brokers he's dependent on. 1% of India's super rich, now own 4 times more wealth than 1 billion of India's poor". As per report the total wealth of all indian billionaires is more than the full-year budget, said the study titled 'Time to Care' which was tagged by Gandhi.
Moreover Oxfam also said the world's 2,153 billionaires have more wealth than the 4.6 billion people who make up 60 per cent of the planet's population. Apparently india NATIONAL CONGRESS' target='_blank' title='congress-Latest Updates, Photos, Videos are a click away, CLICK NOW'>congress leader shashi tharoor today said that protests over the citizenship amendment act could be defused if prime minister narendra modi and home minister amit shah assure people that they would "drop the idea of the National Register of Citizens" and will no longer go to every door asking for documentary proof of "where your father and mother were born."
