Lucknow, April 26 -- In a scathing attack on the Congress party, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, on Thursday, said that the grand old party was contemplating inheritance tax in order to be able to forcefully seize properties of common people and then give it to infiltrators from across borders who have no connection with India.

Lashing out at the Congress during an interaction with the media, Chief Minister Yogi said that the party, which had looted the country's resources for 60-65 years, wanted to rob the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, the Other Backward Classes and the poor of their rights.

The chief minister further said, "The mentality of Congress towards the country and the general public during the United Progressive Alliance ...