Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], April 24 : Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami hit out at the Congress Party over the alleged plan to impose inheritance tax in the country and said that the party intends to loot the country and acquire hard-earned personal property of the public.
Taking to X, CM Dhami said, "Congress' divisive thinking is exposed once again. Rahul Gandhi's advisor Sam Pitroda today exposed the Congress' intentions before the public. The party which intends to loot the country wants to conduct a survey of the public's property, acquire their hard-earned personal property and distribute it among a particular class for vote bank and appeasement."
Earlier, Chairman of Indian Overseas Congress Sam Pitroda backed the party's stand on redistribution of wealth and advocated an inheritance tax law in the country. Emphasing the need for policy towards wealth redistribution, Pitroda elaborated on the concept of inheritance tax prevailing in America.
"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 per cent to his children, 55 per cent 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 of it, which to me sounds fair," Pitroda said.
"In India, you don't have that. If somebody is worth 10 billion and he dies, his children get 10 billion and the public gets nothing...So these are the kinds of issues people will have to debate and discuss. When we talk about redistributing wealth, we are talking about new policies and new programs that are in the interest of the people and not in the interest of the super-rich only," he added.
Pitroda also said that the subject of wealth distribution is strictly a 'policy issue' and he feels concerned about Prime Minister Modi after his remarks on Congress manifesto.
"This is a policy issue. Congress party would frame a policy through which the wealth distribution would be better. We don't have a minimum wage (in India). If we come up with a minimum wage in the country saying you must pay so much money to the poor, that's the distribution of wealth. Today, rich people don't pay their peons, servants, and home help enough but they spend that money on vacation in Dubai and London...When you talk about the distribution of wealth, it is not that you sit on a chair and say I have this much money and I'll be distributing it to everybody," Pitroda said.