PM Modi Ran ‘The Biggest Extortion Racket’ With Electoral Bonds: Rahul Gandhi
In the wake of Election Commission releasing the electoral bonds data, Congress leader and Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi unleashed scathing attack on Prime Narendra Modi. In a direct attack, the former Congress president said, with the now scrapped scheme, Prime Minister Modi ran “the world’s largest extortion racket in the name of electoral bonds.”
Addressing a press conference in Maharashtra’s Pune, Mr Gandhi, who is on a east to west public outreach yatra, said the electoral bond was PM Modi’s brainchild and he had claimed to cleanse the system of political financing in the country, but actually he turned it into the biggest corruption scam in the world and a means of extorting money from the business and corporate houses.
Equating the scheme with anti-national activity, he said, there cannot be a greater anti-national activity than this.
The senior Congress leader also warned the investigating agencies like the Enforcement Directorate and CBI that the BJP government will certainly change and stringent action will be taken against all those who resort to extortion on behalf of the BJP. “Action will be so strong and stringent that nobody will ever dare to do it again”, he promised.
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Describing the ED as an “extortion directorate”, Mr Gandhi said, the ED and the CBI do not investigate but extort money from the corporate and business houses for the BJP. He pointed out, ED/CBI raids are immediately followed by hefty donations to the BJP. He said, there were several companies, which had never before donated to BJP but were made to donate after the ED and CBI intimidation.
Asserting that it was being done so blatantly, Mr Gandhi said, donations were made to the BJP immediately after getting big contracts. He pointed out, unlike the BJP, the opposition parties did not have any control over the ED, the CBI or in awarding the highways and defence contracts.
The senior Congress leader said that the country’s institutions like the Election Commission, the ED and the CBI were no longer working for the nation, but for the BJP as these were directly controlled by the BJP. He made it clear, once the BJP government is gone, strict action will be taken.
He said, it was the same money that the BJP used to destabilise the opposition governments with. “In Maharashtra the NCP and the Shiv Sena were broken with the same money”, he pointed out.
Mr Gandhi expressed confidence that the Congress and its allies in Maharashtra will win the upcoming Lok Sabha elections by biggest margins.
