Hyderabad: The multi-crore wedding gala of mining baron Gali Janardhan Reddy’s daughter has come in handy for tjhe Congress to target the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre.
While Congress Rajya Sabha MP Anand Sharma questioned the government on why no action was taken against the mining baron despite the blatant display of black money on the lavish marriage, in Hyderabad, Congress senior leader V. Hanumantha Rao alleged that the extravaganza was proof of possession of black money by BJP leaders.
“Gali Janardhan Reddy’s daughter’s gala wedding indicates possession of black money by BJP leaders. When the poor and middle class are struggling to perform marriages due to shortage of money after demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes, how come persons like Gali are spending crores of rupees,” Mr Rao asked.
The former MP said that poor and middle class are standing for hours together in queues in front of banks to exchange notes, but the rich and powerful, who the government suspects possess black money, are at ease and not found in queues.
“Can’t Prime Minister Narendra Modi see this? You don’t find a single millionaire or billionaire in front of banks. Show me one and I will take political sanyas,” Mr Rao said. Janardhan Reddy, a former Karnataka minister, is facing charges of disproportionate income, and is out on bail, yet spent hundreds of crores on his daughter’s wedding.
