New Delhi: Congress president Rahul Gandhi continued with his tirade against Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Rafale deal. He said that if the Congress comes to power, it will catch those involved in “corruption” in the deal and put them behind bars.

He also threw a challenge to Modi to answer the questions surrounding the deal. Speaking at a public meeting in Satna, 486km northeast of state capital Bhopal, Gandhi said, “Jisne chori ki usko toh hum pakad ke dikhayenge, un par karyavahi karenge, andar karenge (those who have committed theft we will catch them, take action against, put them in jail)”.

Gandhi, who is on his second visit in a fortnight to poll-bound Madhya Pradesh, also promised that those behind the Vyapam and e-tendering scams in Madhya Pradesh would be caught by the next Congress government and put behind bars.

Vyapam is a multi-crore recruitment cum admission scam that has rocked the state for the past five years while the e-tendering scam, estimated to be of around $3000 cr, involves hacking the e-tender portal of the Madhya Pradesh government to allegedly benefit some companies.

Taking a dig at Modi’s ‘Maan Ki Baat’ monthly radio addresses, Gandhi said nowadays no one listened to his (PM’s) address as they have realised that it is “Jhooti Baat’ (lies).

Gandhi said that despite the hype over the BJP workers meet in Bhopal on September 25, there were empty chairs, and promised that when the Congress government comes to power in the state the chief minister will run the government according to the people’s ‘Maan Ki Baat’.

Hitting out at Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Gandhi said the chief minister claimed that Madhya Pradesh was number one.

“Yes it is number one, but in farmers’ suicide, corruption, unemployment, malnutrition and higher petrol and diesel prices,” Gandhi said. He said chief minister Chouhan and Modi had both lied to the youth of the country.