Questioning Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s silence on corruption in Karnataka, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Sunday sought to know the way a lot every engine of the “double-engine authorities” got from the “40 per cent commission” in the state.
He additionally accused the Prime Minister of disqualifying him as MP for elevating the Adani subject in Parliament.
“For the final three years, there’s a BJP authorities in Karnataka and the Prime Minister is conscious of corruption right here. You solely name it a ‘double engine government’. This time, the double engine is stolen,” Gandhi said at a public meeting in Anekal near here in poll-bound Karnataka.
“Modiji, please tell the people of Karnataka, which engine got how much out of 40 per cent commission,” he requested the Prime Minister.
Dwelling additional, he mentioned the contractors’ affiliation in Karnataka wrote to the Prime Minister that 40 per cent fee was charged from them however Modi didn’t reply.
Stating that there have been scams upon scams, he mentioned large-scale irregularities happened in the recruitment of police sub-inspectors, assistant professors, assistant engineers and in the Karnataka Soaps and Detergents Limited which manufactures the famend Mysore Sandal Soap.
In the Mysore Sandal rip-off, an MLA’s son was caught with Rs 8 crore money and a BJP MLA mentioned the Chief Minister’s put up will be purchased by paying Rs 2,500 crore, the Congress chief mentioned.
“Even a six-year-old baby is conscious of the corruption that has taken place right here in Karnataka,” Gandhi said.
The former Congress president said the Prime Minister comes and says that the Congress abused him 91 times but he should first tell Karnataka what he did to check corruption, what inquiry was conducted and how many people were jailed.
“Everyone knows that there is a double-engine government here. If theft has taken place in Karnataka, then Delhi must have been benefitted. Otherwise, the Prime Minister would have done something for Karnataka government,” he added.
Gandhi complained that he had requested Modi about his relation with businessman Gautam Adani, chairman of Adani Group, in Parliament, after which his membership was disqualified from the Lok Sabha.
(*40*)“I raised the query of corruption and I used to be eliminated from Parliament. The Prime Minister doesn’t act towards those that indulge in corruption,” he alleged.
A local court in Gujarat’s Surat sentenced Gandhi in March to two years in jail after convicting him for criminal defamation in a case regarding the ‘Modi surname’ remark made by the Congress leader back in 2019. A day later, he was disqualified from Parliament. The Gujarat High Court has reserved its verdict on the case after Gandhi moved the court for an appeal.
The former MP said three years ago, the government that came to power in Karnataka was a “stolen one”. “Your authorities was stolen three years in the past. You selected somebody and you bought another person because the MLAs had been purchased. The authorities that got here by theft, will do theft. It doesn’t know something apart from theft,” the Congress chief mentioned.
He was referring to the fall of the Congress-JD(S) coalition government in 2019 within 14 months of its formation after 16 MLAs were disqualified for switching sides. This way, the BJP which was the single-largest party came to power in 2019. Most of those who resigned fought the 2019 bypolls on BJP ticket and became ministers.
Wondering why Prime Minister Modi never spells out the name of other BJP leaders and never takes them in the vehicle during roadshows, Gandhi opined there could be two possibilities.
“Probably, he does not want anyone else to be visible other than him. The other possibility is that Narendra Modi knows that Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai and his predecessor B S Yediyurappa are absolutely corrupt and he wants to hide them from you,” Gandhi alleged.
Speaking in regards to the burning state of affairs in Manipur the place over 50 folks have died because of ethnic violence, he mentioned persons are being killed however the Prime Minister or Union Home Minister Amit Shah don’t have any concern for it.
“Manipur violence is the result of hatred. Our Bharat Jodo Yatra was towards this hatred,” the Congress leader asserted.
Karnataka goes to the polls on May 10 and the results will be declared on May 13.
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