Rahul Gandhi Slams PM, Calls Electoral Bonds 'Corporate Extortion'

Former Congress President and Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi, who is trying to woo the voters through his public outreach program Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, on Thursday once again targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his policies for electoral bonds. Addressing the media, Rahul Gandhi called the Electoral bond scheme, introduced by the Narendra Modi government in 2018 and scrapped recently, an organized way to collect extortion.

Slamming the government for allegedly threatening the corporates with the help of investigating agencies, Rahul Gandhi called the Enforcement Department as Extortion Department. The congressman added the government was running the biggest extortion racket in the world and now has been exposed by the apex court of this country.

When asked that Congress has also got funds through electoral bonds, Rahul Gandhi said none of the opposition parties have given highway contracts, development projects, or any deal to any corporate house, but the Government did. No opposition is spying on people or controlling CBI, ED, or IT and the hefty donation to BJP is "criminal extortion from corporate India".

Rahul Gandhi said every single corporate knows about the corporate extortion and they are scared of the Narendra Modi Government.

Trying to expose the government, Rahul Gandhi said: "The question here is that months after a contract was given, the corporate was giving electoral bonds to the BJP."

He further added that days after the CBI or ED filed a case against any corporate house, the company started giving money to the BJP. This is a serious issue, adding that the Prime Minister is running these extortion rackets.

Rahul Gandhi's comments came a day after the Election Commission of India published the electoral bonds data shared by the State Bank of India (SBI) on its website. The data carried names of the firms that bought the electoral bonds from SBI and the amount. However, experts found that data shared by SBI had no electoral bond numbers, and details about who encashed these bonds and when.