Rahul Gandhi alleges CBI, ED cases go away when BJP is paid money, ‘Adani was handed over Mumbai Airport…’
Rahul Gandhi alleged on Tuesday alleged that CBI, ED and Income Tax cases go away only when businessmen pay money to the BJP. “The system is very simple. They will send CBI, ED, and the Income Tax department to some businessmen.
When that businessman pays some money to the BJP, the CBI, ED case will be closed." He alleged that this is how Adani got the Mumbai airport from its previous owner. “For example, the owner of the Mumbai airport got a CBI case. After a month, he handed over the port to Adani and the case was closed," Congress MP and candidate from Kerala’s Wayanad Lok Sabha seat said while holding a roadshow in Pathanapuram.
"There are some people in every small town or village who extort money on the streets by threatening physical harm. In malayalam you call this extortion 'kolla adikkal' (loot), but Modi calls it electoral bonds. What a common thief is doing on the streets, the PM is doing at an international level," he alleged.
He raised the electoral bond issue by referring to a recent interview of PM Modi. "In his interview, he was trying to defend the biggest corruption scandal on the planet -- the electoral bond scheme through which the BJP got thousands of crores of rupees by extorting India's businessmen," Gandhi alleged. The Congress leader took out a massive road show from Kodiyathur here around 11.30 am as part of his ongoing campaign for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls in the southern state and was accompanied by hundreds of party workers and supporters who ran alongside and ahead of the vehicle carrying him.
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