Even after the assembly elections have finished in the crucial states of Maharashtra and Haryana, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi still seems to be in campaigning mode, attacking the Bhartiya Janata Party.

Gandhi has alleged that the he BJP government was planning to sell the profitable public sector unit Container Corporation of India (CONCOR).

Gandhi said in a tweet that some of the PM Narendra Modi’s “greedy crony capitalist friends” had set their eyes on the Navratna company and the government was ready to comply with their wishes, even though the employees oppose the move.

He made the comments after meeting the members of the employees’ union of CONCOR, who gave him a petition in his capacity as a Member of Parliament against the proposed disinvestment by the Narendra Modi government from the PSU.

A memorandum that the Concor Employee Union submitted to Rahul pleaded with him to raise the matter to stop the sale of the profit-making public sector unit.

“The strategic sale of Concor will lead to monopolistic condition by the purchasing private entity. This will defeat the mixed economy philosophy of our Constitution in order to keep a balance between capitalist and socialist pattern in this segment of business,” the memorandum said.

The former Congress president, in the course of his election campaign in Haryana and Maharashtra, had attacked the government for planning reckless divestments, describing it as selling the country’s assets instead of building anything.

The Congress has been making a big issue out of the proposed sale of BPCL (Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd), describing it as a huge scam.

Concor is the only PSU in its segment of multi-modal logistics and developing dry ports on the hinterland, the memorandum said, adding that the security aspect cannot be ignored as it provides safe mode of movement of currency notes, nuclear fuel and defence equipment.