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Displaying a washing machine on its press conference dais, the Congress taunted the Bharatiya Janata Party over the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filing a closure report in a 2017 corruption case against Nationalist Congress Party leader Praful Patel and said the ruling party’s ‘fully automatic washing machine’ works on the principle — ‘join BJP, case closed
According to PTI, The Congress raised the issue of leaders, against whom there have been corruption charges, joining or aligning with the BJP only to see ‘the cases against them being closed’, an allegation often levelled by opposition parties.
The party warned it will ‘go after every single officer’ of agencies ‘who has willingly become a party to undermining our democracy and our Constitution’.
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In keeping with the flavour of the press conference, Khera alleged that the ‘BJP machine costs over Rs 8,500 crore’ — the money the ruling party got through electoral bonds — and it is effective in cleaning all types of stains of corruption when used with ‘Modi washing powder’.
A leaflet on the ‘Modi washing powder’ was also distributed at the press conference with the prime minister’s picture and a tagline ‘saare daag chutkiyon mein dhule (All stains will be washed away in a jiffy’.
Khera said months after Patel joined the BJP alliance in Maharashtra by splitting the NCP, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed a closure report in a 2017 case of corruption which the BJP had mentioned in its ‘charge sheet’ released in 2014.
Congress General Secretary in-charge Communications Jairam Ramesh told ANI , “In 2014, during the Air India scam, PM Modi was going everywhere with the CAG report. Yesterday, the CBI closed that case because the then minister (Praful Patel) joined the BJP and went into BJP’s washing machine. PM Modi should apologise to Manmohan Singh, he should apologise to the country. Based on the then CAG report, you had brought out the charge sheet against Manmohan Singh. They made a list of all the scams of Manmohan Singh that were fake. They were political reports, not CAG reports. Yesterday it was proved after CBI closed the case against Praful Patel…”
So this means one high-profile allegation made by the BJP against UPA-2 was BOGUS & FALSE. The PM should now apologise to Dr. Manmohan Singh and to the country!https://t.co/WIP3TR68WJ pic.twitter.com/HgoRcWkva3
— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) March 28, 2024
Earlier Ramesh tweeted on X , So this means one high-profile allegation made by the BJP against UPA-2 was BOGUS & FALSE. The PM should now apologise to Dr. Manmohan Singh and to the country!
