“Now available is hard data on the corruption of the BJP”: Congress criticizes PM Modi for his comments about the electoral bond problem

The Narendra Modi government’s “corruption” has long been known, but the Congress stated on Monday that there is now concrete data to support it.

Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh responded to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s claim that his actions on the electoral bond front had caused a “setback” by saying, “Thousands of crores in electoral bond donations made by corporate donors to the BJP can be linked to Rs 4 lakh crores worth of contracts, projects, and environmental clearances.”

Ramesh remarked, “The Indian government has been reduced to a supermarket—’Chanda Do, Dhanda Lo’.”

“Following at least 40 raids by the ED, IT, and CBI, these companies have generously donated electoral bonds to the BJP.” The Congress leader said that “the Prime Minister and his cronies have been engaged in a systematic Hafta Vasuli.”

“Unfortunately, we can count on the Prime Minister to keep lying to the Indian people as his full-time job to cover it up,” Ramesh said.

Ramesh claims that in an interview with a Tamil television station, the Prime Minister said that the only reason the source of money and their intended use are known is because of the Electoral Bond Scheme he established.

Declaring that the Electoral Bond Scheme was intended to be completely anonymous, Ramesh said that the reality is far different.

In a statement published on X, Ramesh said, “In other words, Modi wanted to hide from the public the details of where funds have come from [to political parties] and how these funds are being used.”

The general secretary of Congress stated, “Not a single detail of which party got funds from which donor was revealed to the public for six years, between 2018 and 2024.”

The Electoral Bond Scheme was declared unlawful by the Supreme Court in 2024 after it had been involved. Ramesh noted that the Modi Government attempted to defend the scheme’s anonymity right up to the very last day of court.

According to Ramesh, “the remote-controlled SBI” lied to the court, claiming it had no record of who had given to which party when the Supreme Court ordered the SBI to make public the information.

Ramesh argued that the Supreme Court’s forceful involvement was the only thing that drove the SBI to give the data to the public within days after the agency had sought a convenient extension till after the election, asking for three months to aggregate the data.

When the SBI asked for a three-month delay to link donation data with political parties, it was lying before the Supreme Court. Our team needed less than fifteen seconds and five lines of Python code to link each contributor with the political party to which they had contributed, according to Ramesh.

According to Ramesh, the data has shown massive corruption on the part of the BJP and the Modi administration.