Your snatched mangalsutra remarks got here true, ladies mortgaging jewellery: Kharge to Modi

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Wednesday, 5 March, attacked prime minister Narendra Modi over the rise in gold loans and stated his remarks throughout the Lok Sabha polls marketing campaign about ‘stealing of mangalsutras’ have come true, with ladies pressured to mortgage their gold ornaments beneath his rule.

Kharge claimed that between 2019 and 2024, per media reviews, 4 crore ladies had mortgaged their gold and brought loans amounting to Rs 4.7 lakh crore.

In 2024, 38 per cent of the overall loans taken by ladies are from gold loans, he stated.

In February 2025, RBI information confirmed that gold loans elevated by a whopping 71.3 per cent in a yr, the Congress chief stated.

“Narendra Modi-ji, you had talked about stealing of mangalsutras. That has now come true.

“In your rule, ladies have been pressured to mortgage their gold ornaments.

“First you made ladies’s streedhan disappear by implementing demonetisation; now attributable to inflation and falling family financial savings, they’re pressured to mortgage their most respected factor — their jewelry,” Kharge stated in his put up in Hindi on X.