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PM Modi says Congress wants to give people's wealth to Muslims. Fact check on what Nyay Patra actually says…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi sparked controversy on Sunday after he said that if the Congress party were to come to power, it would among those ‘with more children.’ The PM also cited former Prime Minister 's disputed remarks that Muslims had the first claim on the country's resources.

"This urban-naxal mindset, my mothers and sisters, they will not even leave your 'Mangalsutra'. They can go to that level," Modi said addressing a rally in Rajasthan's Banswara. "The Congress manifesto says they will calculate the gold with mothers and sisters, get information about it and then distribute that property. They will distribute it to whom - Manmohan Singh's government had said that Muslims have the first right on the country's assets," addressing an election rally on Sunday.

The Prime Minister's remarks have triggered a political row with many calling his comments ‘hate speech’. But, what did the Congress manifesto say about wealth re-distribution that has snowballed into a political row?

The Congress party's manifesto doesn’t mention anything about wealth re-distribution to any particular community. In fact, Prime Minister Modi’s remarks seem to be in response to at least three different things linked together with no direct reference in the Congress manifesto .

On April 6, a day after the manifesto release, Congress leader, while speaking in Hyderabad, reportedly promised what he called “financial and institutional survey" for re-distribution of the country’s wealth and jobs. The re-distribution, Gandhi said, would be taken up after the already-promised caste census by the Congress party in its manifesto.

“We will do a caste census so that the backwards, SCs, STs, poor of general castes and minorities know how much (in terms

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