'Rajiv Gandhi scrapped inheritance law to save family property as...': PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused the Gandhi family of scrapping laws and making extensive efforts to ‘accumulate wealth over four generations’ during a poll rally on Thursday.

The Congress party, he told people in Madhya Pradesh, wanted “to loot your wealth" if they were elected to power in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.

The BJP leader claimed that former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi had scrapped an inheritance law during his tenure in order to save the family's wealth.

When former PM Indira Gandhi died, her children were going to get her property.

To save the property so that it does not go to the government, the then PM Rajiv Gandhi scrapped the inheritance law.

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