Prime Minister Narendra Modi today alleged that Indian National Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has stopped attacking his government for being close to industrialists Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani since the elections were announced and asked the Congress to declare funds that they have received from these industrialists.

“For years, Congress’s Prince (shehzade) would all the time talk about ‘5 industrialists’… then they started to name ‘Ambani’ and ‘Adani’… But since the elections are declared, they have stopped abusing Ambani, Adani…,” he said while addressing an election rally in Telangana’s Warangal on Wednesday.

“Why? I wish to ask the Shehzadey of Congress to declare how much black money have they received from Adani, and Ambani?” Modi said.

This charge was countered by several leaders of the Congress party, who have said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is staring at an impending defeat in the general elections and, hence, making such baseless allegations.