Kottayam, April 06: Accusing the UPA government for “failing to curb price rise and corruption”, CPI Deputy General Secretary Sudhakar Reddy today claimed if the government confiscated the black money stashed away abroad and distributed it to citizens, each would get Rs two lakh each.
Addressing a ”meet the press” programme here, Reddy claimed the amount of black money stashed away abroad had risen from about Rs 30 lakh crore in March 2009 to about Rs 200 lakh crore now. If the hidden black money was confiscated, it could be used to uplift the downtrodden, he said.
Reddy said the credibility of the government had “fallen” following the surfacing of scams including the 2G spectrum allocation, Commonwelath Games and Aadarsh housing, where he alleged Congress leaders were “directly involved”.
With respect to the April 13 Kerala Assembly polls, Reddy, whose party is a part of the ruling LDF, said “a big section of minorities” would vote for LDF candidates this time since the party had a “sizeable base”.
——–PTI