Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of promoting the interest of a few select industrialists and “those with black money”, while imposing tax on life-long savings of the salaried class.

Addressing a rally in poll-bound Assam, Gandhi said Modi’s personal attacks do not affect him and vowed to put pressure on the government till it rolls back the proposal of levying tax on EPF withdrawals.

“This Prime Minister allows thieves to turn their black money to white under the recent budget’s ‘fair and lovely scheme’, but taxes the life-long savings of the honest salaried class,” he said.

“I had said in the media and also to the Prime Minister not to tax the salaried class on their honest savings and do something about it. But in his one-hour speech in Parliament on Thursday, there was not a single mention about this,” he said.

Gandhi said that he would continue to fight for the salaried class and put pressure on the government which “works for a selected group of industrialists and those with black money.”

“I’ll continue to pressurise this government as it is not the government of the honest working class...it is not the government of poor farmers, backward classes, youths, women, dalits, adivasis and minorities,” he said.

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