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PM Modi turns emotional in speech, says next target benami property holders

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday made an impassioned plea to the nation to give him 50 days to weed out ill-gotten wealth in the country and said his next target is benami property holders.

“My next surgical strike will be on benami property holders. I will not leave corrupt people and only they are targeting me,” PM Modi said.

“We will take action against ‘benami’ property; this is major step to eradicate graft, black money,” he said.

“Carried out a secret operation (demonetisation); it was 10 months of work involving printing new notes and announced it on November 8,” said Modi at the foundation stone laying ceremony of greenfield airport at Mopa plateau in Goa.

“I know what kind of powers I have taken on. I know the kind of people who will be against me now. I am looting what they had accumulated over 70 years,” PM said in his emotional speech at Goa.

“They will not leave me alive. They will destroy me. Let them do what they want. The country should just help me for 50 days,” he added.

Speaking at a Goa government function near Panaji, Modi said his drive against corruption and black money, especially the demonetisation, had put him in the cross-hairs of those who hold black money.

The Prime Minister teared up during his speech as he said: “I was not born to sit on a chair of high office. Whatever I had, my family, my home…I left it for the nation…”

Anger intensified in the country over the weekend as banks struggled to dispense cash following the government’s decision to withdraw large denomination notes in an attempt to uncover thousands of crores of rupees in undeclared wealth.

Tempers frayed as hundreds of thousands of people queued for hours outside banks for a fourth day on Sunday day to swap Rs. 500 and Rs. 1,000 rupee banknotes after the notes were abolished earlier in the week.

“I am doing this for the poor, honest people for those who are working hard to survive. So that they can get their own home, their children get good education and so that their parents get care,” Modi added.

Earlier in the day, the Prime Minister laid the foundation stone of two major infrastructure projects — a greenfield airport in Mopa and an electronic city in Tuem.

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