NEW DELHI: Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, BJP on Sunday launched a fresh salvo at Congress by releasing the “first episode of Congress Files”, “exposing” a slew of corruption cases during the two tenures of the UPA under Manmohan Singh as PM of the country.
In the video message on its Twitter handle titled “Congress means corruption”, BJP stated, “Congress has looted Rs 48,20,69,00,00,000 from public in 70 years of its rule. That money could have been utilised for so many useful areas of security and development.”
“Using this much amount, 24 INS Vikrant, 300 Rafale jets, and 1,000 Mangal Missions could have been made or purchased. But the country has to bear the cost of Congress’ corruption, and it lagged behind in the race of progress,” the video message added.
It also termed the Congress tenure from 2004-2014 as a “lost decade”.
“Keeping the whole 70 years aside, if we only look at the last tenure of 2004-14, it was a ‘Lost Decade’. The government was led by Manmohan Singh, who turned a blind eye to all the corruption that kept on happening under his rule. In those days, papers were filed with the news of corruption, looking at which the heads of every Indian would hang in shame,” it further added.
“Coal scam of Rs 1.8 lakh crore, 2G Spectrum scam of Rs 1.7 lakh crore, MNREGA scam of Rs 10 lakh crore, Commonwealth scam of Rs 70,000 crore,” it further added.
Towards the end of the video it is also mentioned that this was only the “trailer” of Congress’s corruption, the “movie” is still not over.
Party sources said that it will remind the people of how corruption had become a norm during the two tenures of the Congress-led UPA and people got rid of the coalition regime by electing BJP and Prime Minister Modi.
In the video message on its Twitter handle titled “Congress means corruption”, BJP stated, “Congress has looted Rs 48,20,69,00,00,000 from public in 70 years of its rule. That money could have been utilised for so many useful areas of security and development.”
“Using this much amount, 24 INS Vikrant, 300 Rafale jets, and 1,000 Mangal Missions could have been made or purchased. But the country has to bear the cost of Congress’ corruption, and it lagged behind in the race of progress,” the video message added.
It also termed the Congress tenure from 2004-2014 as a “lost decade”.
“Keeping the whole 70 years aside, if we only look at the last tenure of 2004-14, it was a ‘Lost Decade’. The government was led by Manmohan Singh, who turned a blind eye to all the corruption that kept on happening under his rule. In those days, papers were filed with the news of corruption, looking at which the heads of every Indian would hang in shame,” it further added.
“Coal scam of Rs 1.8 lakh crore, 2G Spectrum scam of Rs 1.7 lakh crore, MNREGA scam of Rs 10 lakh crore, Commonwealth scam of Rs 70,000 crore,” it further added.
Towards the end of the video it is also mentioned that this was only the “trailer” of Congress’s corruption, the “movie” is still not over.
Party sources said that it will remind the people of how corruption had become a norm during the two tenures of the Congress-led UPA and people got rid of the coalition regime by electing BJP and Prime Minister Modi.
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