On April 17, the Member of Parliament spoke at an electoral rally in Mandya, the Cauvery heartland, alongside Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy CM D.K. Shivakumar.
Regarding the electoral bond issue, Congressman Rahul Gandhi criticized Prime Minister Narendra Modi harshly and called it an extortion scheme.
On April 17, the MP, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, and Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar spoke at an electoral rally in Mandya, which is located in the Cauvery heartland.
Mr. Gandhi brought up Mr. Modi’s recent interview with ANI, in which the Prime Minister attempted to portray electoral bonds as a means of assisting in the purification of the political system. However, Mr. Gandhi called the electoral bonds the worst fraud in history and likened them to an extortion scheme run by “petty, goonda elements.”
Despite Mr. Modi’s best efforts to defend the plan, the Supreme Court of India had declared it unlawful and dissolved it. Mr. Gandhi remarked, “Mr. Modi’s hands were trembling during the interview while speaking on the electoral bonds.”
He charged that the BJP was coercing entrepreneurs and businesspeople into purchasing electoral bonds in exchange for favors.
“It has come to light that those who benefited from government contracts had purchased the bonds, after the Supreme Court ordered the authorities to release the information in the public domain,” Mr. Rahul Gandhi stated. Cases against those under investigation by the ED and CBI were closed at the time the bonds were bought.
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According to Mr. Gandhi, the upcoming Lok Sabha elections will pit two opposing ideologies against one another: the BJP is a government that is run for the benefit of roughly 25 corporate bigwigs, while the Congress and the INDIA block represented the forces that fought for freedom, brought about a constitutional democracy, and worked for the poor.
He said the BJP has a pro-wealthy bias. It didn’t improve the lot of farmers, but it did relieve roughly 25 corporate and industrialist borrowers of ₹16 lakh crore in debt. Mr. Gandhi declared, “This is the amount of money which would have funded the MGNREGA scheme for 24 years.” “Farmers are unhappy wherever there is a BJP administration in a State because of agrarian hardship and the government’s inability to address their grievances.”
