Congress, Govt Spar Over Monetising Public Assets

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"Is the New Delhi Railway Station owned by the brother-in-law now?" Indian Finance Minister's response to an opposition leader who criticised a government policy.

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00:00Congress party can every now and then come up with,

00:03oh, you're selling off the country, selling off.

00:06That's something which they are very good at.

00:08Did they sell off the railway, New Delhi Railway Station?

00:12Is it owned by Jijaji now?

00:16Does he understand what is monetization?

00:30I wish the opposition questions, with some homework done,

00:40who actually monetized the Mumbai-Pune Corridor?

00:45Was it not the Congress party?

00:49Was it not under the Congress party, which was headed by Shreem...

00:52and is even now being headed by Shreemati Sonia Gandhi,

00:5628,000 odd crores was raised by that?

01:00New Delhi Railway Station, who called for the RFP on it?

01:06Was it not the Congress party, somewhere between 2008-05,

01:10something like that?

01:11New Delhi Railway Station, RFP call for was made 27-10-2008.

01:222008, who was the Prime Minister then?

01:27Who was the Finance Minister then?

01:30And I would definitely ask Shri Rahul Gandhi,

01:36who, even when the Prime Minister was abroad,

01:39when he thought one of the ordinances was so outrageous,

01:43he tore it up in front of the media.

01:46Did he tear this RFP call for the New Delhi Railway Station

01:50to be monetized?

01:52Did he tear this out?

01:55If he indeed is against monetization,

01:58why wasn't the RFP for monetizing New Delhi Railway

02:02Station torn to pieces by Shri Rahul Gandhi?

02:08Is this not monetization?

02:11And if this is monetization, then did they

02:14sell off the railway, New Delhi Railway Station?

02:18Is it owned by Jijaji now?

02:24Does he understand what is monetization?

02:29Congress party can, every now and then,

02:32come up with, oh, you're selling off the country.

02:35That's something which they are very good at.

02:37They sold air, they sold water, they sold land,

02:40they sold mines, and made a lot of kickback with it.

02:45From 2014, I challenge if there's

02:50been even an allegation, a whisper of allegation,

02:53against Prime Minister Modi's government.

02:56The monetization pipeline that was announced by me

02:58the day before yesterday, two days ago,

03:01there is no change of ownership.

03:03The ownership is still with government of India.

03:05You in the media, particularly those

03:07who handle the business and finance and everything else,

03:10do understand it.

03:11I'm sure you will be able to ask the Congress

03:14party about the way in which they jump into conclusions

03:21and charge the government about, oh, you're

03:23selling away everything which has been built 70 years over.

03:26Something like that he did say.

03:2870 years over they built, and what did happen

03:32during the Commonwealth Games?

03:35Within one Commonwealth Games, they

03:37finished all that which can be creamed out

03:41into the accounts of their cronies.

03:44That is their business, not the government of Prime Minister

03:47Modi's.

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