PM Modi on Sam Pitroda's 'inheritance tax' remark: 'Congress ki loot zindagi ki saath bhi or zindagi ke baad bhi'

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a scathing attack on the Congress over its "advisor" Sam Pitoda advocating an inheritance tax law. He accused the Congress of "looting" the citizens even after their death.

"— Congress ki loot zindagi ke sath ki or zindagi ke baad bhi [the Congress has only one motto – that of looting people during their life and even after their life]," PM Modi said at an election rally in Surguja.

"The Congress will kill you with more taxes until you are alive and when you die, it will burden you with the . Those people who considered the entire Congress party as their ancestral property and handed it over to their children, now do not want Indians to pass on their property to their children," PM Modi said.

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The Prime Minister said, “The royal family's prince's advisor has said that more taxes should be imposed on the middle class. Now, these people have gone one step further than this… the Congress says that it will impose an Inheritance Tax, and it will also impose tax on the inheritance received from parents. The property you have accumulated through your hard work will not be given to your children."

The Prime Minister was reacting to a recent remark by Chairman of Indian Overseas Congress, Sam Pitroda, who reportedly emphasised the need for a policy toward wealth redistribution.

Pitroda said during a TV debate, “In America, there is an inheritance tax. If one has 100 million USD worth of wealth and when he dies he can only transfer probably 45 percent to his children, 55 percent is grabbed by the government. That's an interesting law. It says you in your generation, made wealth and you are leaving now, you must leave your wealth for the public, not all of it, half