NEW DELHI: Two days after returning home from a three-week stay at AIIMS for a kidney transplant, senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley on Wednesday launched a scathing attack on Congress President Rahul Gandhi through his blog.

In a Facebook write up titled "How much does he know", Jaitley attacked Gandhi saying "every time I listen to the view of Shri Rahul Gandhi, both inside and outside Parliament, I ask myself the same question – How much does he know? When will he know?"

"Listening to his speech delivered in Madhya Pradesh today reaffirms my curiosity about the answer. Is he being inadequately briefed or is he being a little too liberal with his facts," he said.

Gandhi was in Madhya Pradesh's Mandsaur on Wednesday where he addressed a public rally and accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of waiving loans worth Rs 1.5 lakh crores of 15 industrialists.
Jaitley dubbed Gandhi's charges against prime minister as "completely false"

"The Government has not waived of a single rupee due from any industrialist. The facts are to the contrary. Those who owed money to the banks and other creditors have been declared insolvent and removed from their companies by IBC enacted by Prime Minister Modi’s Government," he said.

He said these loans were given largely during the UPA Government.

On Rahul's allegations that the NDA government provided loans to industrialists and not to farmers, he said: "This was during the UPA Government, particularly UPA II, when bulk of amount constitute the NPA’s today were given by the banking system during the period 2008-14. From 2014 we have been systematically taking one step after the other to recover these monies back."

Referring to the multi-crore PNB banking fraud involving Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi, Jaitley said: "This banking fraud started in the year 2011 when the UPA II was in power. It was only detected during the NDA period."

Jaitley, 65, was admitted to the hospital on May 12, and the surgery was performed on May 14. Post that, he stayed in isolation ward to avoid infection.

During the period of Jaitley's indisposition, Railways Minister Piyush Goyal was given the additional charge of the finance ministry.