Modi won't debate with me as he can't answer questions on Adani links: Rahul

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday claimed that Narendra Modi is refusing to have a debate with him as the prime minister cannot answer questions about his “links” with a few favoured businessmen and how he “misused” electoral bonds.

Addressing a public meeting organised by the Congress in Delhi, he urged workers of his party and of the Aam Aadmi Party to work together to ensure the victory of their alliance on all seven Lok Sabha seats in the national capital.

“It’s interesting that I’ll vote for AAP and Arvind Kejriwal will vote for Congress in these elections,” he said.

Gandhi said the first aim of everyone should be to save the Constitution from those “hell-bent on destroying it”.

Attacking the prime minister, the Congress leader said, “PM Modi is giving non-stop interviews to his favourite journalists but he will not have a debate with me because he knows he cannot answer my questions.”

“PM Modi talks about the Congress getting tempo-loads of money from Adani-Ambani, but he doesn’t dare to get it probed,” he said.

“I’m ready to debate with PM Modi whenever and wherever he wants, but I’m sure he won’t come. The first question I would ask PM Modi is what is his relationship with Adani, next I want to ask him about electoral bonds,” the former Congress chief said.

Gandhi said the debate would end after these two questions only, but he also wanted to ask the prime minister “why he told the public to bang plates and flash mobile phones when people were suffering from the Covid pandemic”.