New Delhi: Launching a scathing assault on the Bharatiya Janata Party, Congress chief Pawan Khera alleged that every one circumstances in opposition to an individual are squashed as soon as she or he joins the BJP and demonstrated the method by displaying a washer on its press convention dais.
Khera’s scathing feedback come after the CBI filed a closure report in a 2017 corruption case in opposition to NCP chief Praful Patel.
‘BJP Washing Machine’: Congress
#WATCH | Delhi: During a press convention, Congress chief Pawan Khera used the ‘Washing Machine’ analogy for his or her allegations that the circumstances in opposition to any one who joins the BJP, are squashed. pic.twitter.com/9ChOwFf9BH
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In the Congress’ press convention on Saturday, a washer was on show with the leaflet studying “BJP washing machine.” The social gathering’s press convention was all about symbolically representing how circumstances in opposition to individuals are “washed” as soon as they be part of the BJP.Â
In the demonstration of “washing of cases” a “dirty T-shirt” with “corruption, fraud, scam” written on it was put into the machine and a clear T-shirt with “BJP Modi wash” written got here out of it “after the wash.
In preserving with the flavour of the press convention, Khera alleged that the “BJP machine costs over Rs 8,500 crore” – the cash the ruling social gathering acquired by way of electoral bonds – and it’s efficient in cleansing all sorts of stains of corruption when used with “Modi washing powder”.
Congress’ ‘Modi Washing Powder’ Jibe At BJP
A leaflet on the “Modi washing powder” was additionally distributed on the press convention with the prime minister’s image and a tagline “saare daag chutkiyon mein dhule (All stains will be washed away in a jiffy”.
Khera mentioned months after Patel joined the BJP alliance in Maharashtra by splitting the NCP, the CBI filed a closure report in a 2017 case of corruption which the BJP had talked about in its “charge sheet” launched in 2014.
The BJP in its 2014 Lok Sabha elections “charge sheet” in opposition to the UPA authorities had listed what it described because the “Air India scam”.
Khera identified that the BJP had said that the “whole scam is approximately Rs. 25,000 crore to Rs 30,000 crore”.
The Central Bureau of Investigation had alleged that in 2006, Patel abused his place because the Union civil aviation minister within the UPA authorities to lease a number of plane for 5 years to Air India to learn non-public gamers, Khera mentioned.
Not solely this, in 2019, the BJP made “some vile allegations” in opposition to Patel claiming that “he was involved in a property deal with 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts accused Iqbal Mirchi”, the Congress chief mentioned.
“BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra asked the Congress to come clean on the allegation of a land deal between Patel and Mirchi, a close aide of fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim who was declared a global terrorist. We ask, what happened to that ludicrous allegation, now?” Khera mentioned.
He claimed that there are at the least 21 main leaders who’ve been whitewashed “clean” after the BJP made allegations of corruption and illegality in opposition to them.
Khera cited the names of Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, Narayan Rane, Ajit Pawar, Chhagan Bhujbal and Ashok Chavan as being amongst these in opposition to whom the BJP had levelled allegations of corruption however stopped speaking about it once they joined the ranks of the BJP.
“Is the BJP 2014 charge sheet about Praful Patel and many others who were part of Congress-UPA true? Or was it only meant for mudslinging? Or to coerce opponents into supporting the BJP. Which scenario holds true for Modi-Shah?” Khera mentioned.
“PM Modi recently spoke about ‘committed judiciary’ and criticised the Congress party for his own government’s sins. Can PM Modi and HM Amit Shah, now come out openly saying that they want committed institutions – a caged parrot CBI, an extortion directorate ED, or an income terminating IT?” he mentioned.
“Na khaunga, na khane doonga, agar BJP join karo, to cases rafa-dafa kar doonga,” Khera mentioned, taking a jibe on the prime minister for his 2014 election assertion the place he had vowed to battle corruption.
Khera asserted that the Congress has all the time maintained that every one these “so-called scams” that the BJP spoke about have been faux.
“All the so-called reports, that the so-called CAG Mr Vinod Rai who was a puppet in the hands of those in the current regime prepared, were fake. But we will definitely go after every single officer of these agencies who has willingly become a party to undermining our democracy and our Constitution,” he asserted.
