Congress To Hold Press Conferences Across India Against Govt’s ‘National Monetisation Pipeline’

The Congress had earlier hit out at the government after Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman unveiled Rs 6 lakh crore National Monetisation Pipeline.

Congress Leader Rahul Gandhi

New Delhi: The prominent Congress leaders will hold press conferences across the country in the upcoming week over the National Monetisation Pipeline plan during which they are likely to accuse Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government of selling the country’s assets.  

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had earlier alleged Prime Minister Modi “is in the process of selling the crown jewels of this country” built by the previous governments with public money over 70 years.

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Gandhi said earlier on Tuesday the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has claimed that nothing happened in India for 70 years, but now all assets created in all these years are being sold.

Below is the list of Congress leaders who will be addressing press conferences in major state capitals:

Mumbai: P. Chidambaram

Lucknow: Bhupesh Baghel

Hyderabad: Mallikarjun Kharge

Bengaluru: Sachin Pilot

Patna: Digvijaya Singh

Kolkata: Salman Khurshid

Guwahati: Mukul Wasnik

Jaipur: Rajiv Shukla

Bhopal: Bharat Solanki

Raipur: Ajay Maken

Srinagar: Shashi Tharoor

Kochi: Milind Deora

The Congress had earlier on Monday hit out at the government after Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman unveiled Rs 6 lakh crore National Monetisation Pipeline, which will cover a wide array of sectors ranging from road and railway assets, and airports to power transmission lines and gas pipelines.

“Sale of country's properties worth Rs 6 lakh crore -- roads, rail, mines, telecom, power, gas, airports, ports, sports stadium...Modi ji will sell everything from the earth to the sky. If there is BJP, then the assets of the country will not be saved,” Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said in a tweet in Hindi using the hashtag “#StopSellingIndia”.