Jaipur: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Friday said farmers will reduce his (Modi) “56-inch chest” to “5.6 inches” in six months and not an inch of land will be ceded. He also said that the Rajasthan Government is being run by ex IPL boss Lalit Modi, by remote from London.

Gandhi’s remarks come at a time when the government is planning to bring the contentious Land Bill in the monsoon session of Parliament beginning next week.

“First time such a government has come which is helping the opposition. Whenever they get an opportunity, government is helping the Congress. On farmers’ issue, they have issued an ordinance thrice. We will not allow the land bill to be passed in Parliament, you will see. Not a single inch of land will be given.

“This 56-inch chest will turn into 5.6 inches in six months. And who will turn this into 5.6 inches, it is the Congress party, people of the country, the farmers and the labourers, you will see,” Mr. Gandhi said, taking a jibe at the Prime Minister’s remark of “56-inch chest” made at the time of the Lok Sabha campaign.

“The way that government’s remote was in London, the same way the remote control of this government is in London. He presses the button there and here she (Vasundhara Raje) jumps,” he alleged.

Accusing the Chief Minister of helping a “fugitive” who had amassed black money, he said, “She broke the Indian laws by helping a wanted fugitive, a corrupt man who made black money“.

“Here it is not a Vasundhara government, but a Lalit Modi government. Everyone in Rajasthan knows, this is not a BJP government or a Vasundhara government, it is Lalit Modi government here,” he charged.