100 Indian billionaires have as much wealth as 40% population: Rahul Gandhi

TIL Desk/National/Panaji/ India’s top 100 billionaires have as much wealth as 40 per cent of the country’s population, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Friday. Speaking at an election rally at the Curchorem assembly constituency in South Goa, Gandhi once again spelled out his theory of two India, which he had first advocated in Parliament earlier this month.

“In India, on the one hand, there are billionaires and on the other hand there are unemployed. “Today, India’s richest 100 persons have as much money as 40 per cent of the Indian population. On the one hand, there is 40 per cent of India’s population and on the other hand, 100 billionaires.

“Today, 90 percent profit goes to 20 businesses,” Gandhi said. “The country is being further divided. On the one hand, there are a select few rich and lakhs, crores of poor on the other. We do not want such a Goa and India. If India is a country, everyone should get the opportunity, there should be justice. We want such a Goa, such an India,” he added.