Who needs 'Money Heist' fiction, when you have Congress: PM Modi on Odisha cash row

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday took a jibe at Congress and drew a parallel between crime series 'Money Heist' and the Congress.

"In India, who needs 'Money Heist' fiction, when you have the Congress Party, whose heists are legendary for 70 years and counting," Prime Minister Modi said in his post.

The remark came in wake of the recovery of more than Rs 350 crore from premises linked to its MP Dhiraj Prasad Sahu.



The Prime Minister made the remarks in reaction to a post on X by the BJP in which it shared a video showing pictures of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and the piles of cash recovered during Income Tax raids on premises linked to the Jharkhand MP.

The BJP captioned the video "Congress presents the Money Heist!" while the series' popular title song plays in the background.

The cash seizure in the Income Tax department's searches against Odisha-based Boudh Distillery Private Limited owned by the family of Sahu -- the Congress' Rajya Sabha MP -- has been calculated at Rs 351 crore and is the "highest-ever" haul in a single action by any probe agency in the country, official sources had said on Sunday.