New Delhi: Intensifying his attack on the Congress, BJP president JP Nadda on Saturday asked the opposition party 10 questions, including the alleged links between the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation and China, and said that his party will leave no stone unturned in “exposing double-faced politicians”.
“I want to tell Sonia Gandhi that under the garb of China and COVID-19 crisis, one should not shy away from answering the questions the nation wants to know… It’s a shame. It’s a sacrifice of national interest by accepting money from foreign powers in personal trusts,” Nadda told reporters while attacking the Congress president.
Amid the standoff with China, he asserted that India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi is safe and secure, and that its brave armed forces are fully capable of protecting the country. The central government has also handled the COVID-19 crisis in the best possible manner, he added.
Nadda alleged that the RGF, which is headed by Sonia Gandhi, received donations every year from the Chinese embassy between 2005-09 and from the “tax haven” of Luxembourg, which is full of “hawala transactions’, between 2006-09. NGOs and companies with ‘deep commercial interests’ also donated to the foundation, he said.
Nadda asked the Congress on Saturday to come clean on its “links” with China, and the details of its MoU with the Communist Party of China.
The BJP president also took a jibe at former prime minister Manmohan Singh, accusing him of allocating Rs 100 crore to the foundation as the finance minister in 1991 when India was going through its “worst financial crisis”.
“Since then it has regularly received donation from ministries. Yet, the RGF refuses to be audited by the CAG or even come under the Right to Information Act. What does Manmohan Singh have to say on this monumental loot and organised plunder,” Nadda asked. (PTI)
