For the primary time, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke intimately concerning the not too long ago scrapped Electoral Bond Scheme and got here out with info and figures to reject the Opposition cost that BJP cornered many of the donations. In an interview to ANI information company on Monday, Modi stated, out of practically 3,000 firms that purchased electoral bonds, solely 26 firms are dealing with actions from the Enforcement Directorate. He additionally stated, amongst these 26 firms, 16 firms purchased electoral bonds regardless of dealing with authorized actions. Modi stated, out of those 16 firms, 37 per cent of the electoral bond cash went to the BJP, whereas 63 per cent of the electoral bond cash went to opposition events that aren’t aligned with BJP.
Modi stated, these figures clearly garbage the Opposition’s allegation that ED and CBI had been misused to get electoral donations. The Prime Minister stated, those that are opposing the electoral bond scheme will remorse it later. He stated “This (scrapping) is a decision everyone will regret when there is honest reflection…this has completely pushed the country towards black money”. Modi additionally rubbished the opposition allegations that the federal government was misusing ED and CBI to focus on political opponents. He stated, “out of all of the instances ED has registered, solely 3 per cent instances are in opposition to politicians whereas 97 per cent of the accused are those that don’t have anything to do with politics. They are both drug mafia or officers concerned in corruption, or officers who had created benami (unlawful) property.
97 per cent of instances are in opposition to them they usually have been despatched to jail”. Modi stated, these within the opposition who’re making a problem about appointments of heads of ED, CBI and Election Commissioners, know that their defeat (in elections) is bound, and they’re on the lookout for excuses. The Prime Minister additionally spoke about his plan for Indian tax payers, on Sanatana Dharma and alleged politicization of Hinduism, Ayodhya Ram temple difficulty and his future roadmap. Soon after the PM’s interview was telecast, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi reacted saying electoral bond scheme was the “biggest extortion scheme of the world and Modi was the mastermind”.
Rahul Gandhi demanded that the PM should clarify how CBI begins inquiry and after BJP will get electoral bond cash, the inquiry is scrapped. Political allegations and counter-allegations aside, Modi, in his greater than an hour lengthy interview identified what his authorities did over the last ten years, and outlined his imaginative and prescient for the subsequent 25 years. He additionally indicated what his authorities would do within the first 100 days of his authorities’s third time period. This clearly exhibits Modi is assured of getting a 3rd time period. The opposition had been alleging that the current election is just not being held with a “level playing field” and CBI and ED are being misused to intimidate opposition events. The opposition has additionally alleged that a number of leaders have been jailed and a few leaders have been pressured to depart their events.
Modi replied to all these costs. The opposition events have additionally alleged that they’re wanting funds forward of the elections as a result of the federal government has intimated the donors. Modi, on his half, got here with all info and figures regarding electoral bond donations, ED and CBI probes. One essential level that Modi made was, one can perceive the DMK’s compulsion for criticizing Sanatan Dharma, however, Modi requested, why has the Congress forgotten Sanatan tradition? This is one other level on which the Congress seems to be on a weak pitch.
