Waiting For Rs 15 Lakh That PM Modi Talked About? Here's A Big News For You

Amidst the Lok Sabha Election 2024, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a big statement on black money seized by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) during multiple raids in recent years. During an interview with India Today, when asked about the Government's plan of action for the gigantic amount seized by probe agencies, PM Modi said that his government is exploring legal options to return this money to the people of India.

"I am putting a lot of thought into this because I feel from my heart that these people have looted the poor's money by misusing their position, and they should get it back."

The PM added that if any legal changes would be needed, he would get it done.

"I have asked for advise from the best legal advisors of this country on what to do with the seized money that is lying around," PM Modi said.

Highlighting some provisions mentioned in the new 'Nyaya Sanhita', a replacement to Indian Penal Code, PM Modi said soon a way will be made in this regard. Dropping down the number of amounts lying with government agencies, PM Modi said so far nearly Rs 1.25 Lakh crores have been seized.

PM said some corrupt politicians, leaders, and businessmen forcefully collected this money from innocent people and now it is time to return this money to them. Quoting the land-for-jobs scam, in which, former Bihar CM Lalu Prasad Yadav and his party leaders were involved, PM Modi said such conditions forced people to give their hard-earned money and properties.

"I have talked about a couple of types of corruption, one that is done in big businesses where the transaction remains secret. This is a problem. In most cases, innocent people paid for it, like in Bengal, in the case of recruitment of teachers," the Prime Minister further said.

He also took on erstwhile Left Parties governments in Kerala and West Bengal saying "the people's money in the Communist Party-run Cooperative Banks was swindled in the name of personal business partnerships, and they have committed fraud worth thousands of crores," and "...Lalu ji has got the land written in his name when he was the railway minister in exchange for giving jobs to poor people".

However, PM Modi's statement has again given hope to people who have been waiting for Rs 15 lakh to be transferred to their bank accounts, which BJP leaders including PM Modi talked about in his election rallies in 2013, and later when Modi became the Prime Minister, Congress started poking him to give Rs 15 lakh to every Indian that he had "promised".

Notably, PM Modi never "Promised", and had only mentioned in his speech on November 7, 2013, in Chhattisghar's Kanker that if total black money in India gets recovered, it will be such a huge amount that every Indian can easily get 15-20 lakh in their accounts.