Take points from top teams in IPL & give them to bottom 3: Ex-cricketer Venkatesh Prasad slams wealth redistribution promise by Congress
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New Delhi, April 23: Coming down heavily on Congress wealth redistribution promise, former cricketer Venkatesh Prasad has criticised the grand old party by calling it pathetic. Notably, this came after the Congress on Monday pledged to conduct a wealth redistribution survey if the party ascend to power in the Lok Sabha elections.
Without explicitly mentioning the Congress, Venkatesh Prasad likened the party's commitment to the concept of deducting points from the top four IPL teams and reallocating them to the bottom three teams "in order for them to qualify for the playoffs".
"One of the political party’s manifesto is to redistribute the wealth of the rich to the poor. The really poor need to be uplifted but this thought process is so pathetic. It is like saying If we take 4 points from RR and 4 from KKR and SRH and re-distribute it to the bottom 3 teams, they can make the playoffs," he tweeted.
One of the political party’s manifesto is to redistribute the wealth of the rich to the poor. The really poor need to be uplifted but this thought process is so pathetic.
— Venkatesh Prasad (@venkateshprasad) April 22, 2024
It is like saying If we take 4 points from RR and 4 from KKR and SRH and re-distribute it to the bottom 3…
PM's attack on Congress
Venkatesh Prasad's remark came after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's assertion that the Congress, if elected, would redistribute the nation's wealth to "Muslims", "infiltrators" and "those with more children".
PM Modi's comments ensued subsequent to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's statement on April 6, wherein he asserted that should the party secure victory, it would undertake a comprehensive financial and institutional inquiry to determine the distribution of wealth among the populace in the nation.
"We will first conduct a nationwide caste census to determine how many people belong to the Other Backward Classes (OBCs), Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs) and minorities. After that, we will conduct a financial and institutional survey in a historic step to ascertain the distribution of wealth," he said at a rally in Hyderabad after releasing the Congress's manifesto.