Addressing party workers in Amethi, the Congress chief said while farmers were in distress with ever-mounting debts, Modi was busy helping his industrialist friends by waiving off their loans.

Terming demonetization as the biggest scam of independent India Gandhi said millions of Indians were forced to stand in lines outside banks.

He said the ‘chowkidar’ has siphoned off the money meant for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) and given it to Nirav Modi, the diamond merchant who ran off to foreign shores with it.

Gandhi said that the name of Modi was synonymous with hatred which is causing a huge loss to the country.