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BJP chief JP Nadda keeps up attack on Congress and Sonia Gandhi
BJP chief JP Nadda also claimed that the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation (RGF) got donations from the Chinese Embassy between 2005 and 2009.
BJP chief JP Nadda continued his attack on the Congress party for the second day on Saturday, saying that under the garb of China and corona crisis, party president Sonia Gandhi should not shy away from the answering questions that the nation wants to know.
He again reiterated that the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation (RGF) got donations from Chinese Embassy between 2005 and 2009.
“It is a sacrifice of national interest to accept money from foreign powers in personal trust. The country wants to know what transpired between the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation and the Chinese government?” the BJP chief said during a virtual press conference.
The BJP chief also claimed that the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation received donation from Mehul Choksi.
“Why did you take donation in Rajiv Gandhi Foundation from Mehul Choksi and give loan to him? The country wants to know as to why the foundation took money from Mehul Choksi and what is the relation between Mehul Choksi and Rajiv Gandhi Foundation?,” Nadda asked party president Sonia Gandhi as part of 10 questions that he put to her and the party.
On Friday too, the BJP chief had targeted the party and Sonia Gandhi in a series of tweets, saying “one family’s hunger for wealth” hurt the nation , and added that the Sonia Gandhi-headed trust had received donation from the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund (PMNRF) when the UPA government was in power at the Centre.
However, dismissing Nadda’s charges, the Congress had said the the BJP was trying shift the focus from the Chinese issue. “The diabolical game of deception, diversion and disinformation is being played out by the BJP and JP Nadda to divert the attention of the country from the Chinese occupation of Galwan Valley, Pangong Tso and now Depsang up to the Y-junction, 18km inside the LAC,” Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said on Friday.
On Saturday, Nadda added that the RGF received donations from tax havens of Luxembourg every year from 2006 to 2009.
He also questioned why the RGF accounts were refused for CAG auditing and why the RTI was not applicable to the foundation.
There has been an ongoing war of words between the BJP and the Congress for quite some time now –first on the issue of coronavirus situation in the country and lately , on the face-off between the Indian and Chinese troops at the Line of Actual Control in Ladakh’s Galwan Valley on June 15.
Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has accused Centre’s Modi government of giving away Indian territory to the Chinese while Sonia Gandhi has said that the current crisis is a result of ‘mismanagement’ of the BJP-led NDA government and the ‘wrong policies’ pursued by it.
In three video messages released back-to-back on Friday afternoon, Congress president Sonia Gandhi, son Rahul and daughter Priyanka stepped up attacks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the India-China border standoff and asked the government to take people into confidence on the extent of territories being occupied by Chinese troops.
However, defending the central government, BJP chief JP Nadda on Saturday said that the armed forces are fully capable of protecting India, keeping the country safe and secure under Prime Minister Modi.
