New Delhi, April 5: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of creating a financial monopoly by capturing the central agencies and said that the Bharatiya Janata Party will not be able to cross the 180-mark in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

Addressing the media after the release of his party manifesto, Gandhi said, “The way Adani has a monopoly in ports, infrastructure and defence, the same way Prime Minister Modi wants to keep control of political finance monopoly by using the CBI, ED and IT”.

He claimed the battle was a much closer contest than the media has been making it to be and reminded all of the 2004 “India Shining” episode.

“This is not an ordinary election. On one hand Narendra Modi ji and NDA are attacking democracy and the Constitution and on the other hand, the INDIA alliance is protecting democracy and the Constitution. This election is between these two powers,” Gandhi stressed.

Exuding confidence about INDIA alliance fate, Gandhi reminded his audience that it was an ideological battle.

“This election is to protect the country’s democracy and Constitution. This election is between the NDA that wants to finish the country’s democracy and Constitution and the INDIA which wants to protect the country’s fundamental structure. We are of the view that the country cannot be run by two or three industrialists but by the participation of the people of the country,” he added.

Alleging that the Prime Minister was scared and that was the reason he was chanting the slogan of ‘400 paar’ Gandhi claimed, “All the information about electoral bonds has come out. The entire blue print has come out, from whom the money was collected and to whom the contracts awarded and how much money was paid”.

UNI