PUNE, Maharashtra — Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi and the Congress party's on Tuesday took a dig at Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's claim of development by calling it the ‘“pro-rich toffee model of development” in Gujarat. He claimed industrialists who had reaped its benefit were funding Narendra Modi's expensive election campaign. “He is spending about Rs 10 crore on each public meeting. There are advertisements in newspapers. Where is this money coming from? Those who have gained from the toffee model are funding this marketing,” Rahul said. He was addressing a rally in Pune in support of party nominee Vishwajeet Kadam on the last day of the election campaign for the Lok Sabha constituencies in the sugar belt of western Maharashtra. These constituencies are scheduled to go to polls on April 17. Rahul reiterated that Modi has given land of Aurangabad's size, around 45,000 acres, for a mere Rs 300 crore to Adanis. He also said Gujarat government has given away sea beach stretch equal to Mumbai's total beach line to an individual at a price of Rs 33 crore. “The Gujarat government has given Rs 10,000 crore to the Tata Group for the Nano factory with just one percent interest rate,” he added. — Agencies
