Reportedly the congress attacked the bjp after a case was lodged against Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman and others on a complaint relating to the now-scrapped electoral bonds scheme and demanded her resignation for “undermining democracy”. The opposition party reiterated its demand for a Supreme-court monitored inquiry through an SIT into the whole electoral bond scheme.
Meanwhile when addressing a press conference here along with party spokesperson abhishek Singhvi, congress general secretary in-charge communications jairam ramesh charged that four ways were used to extort money through the “conspiracy of electoral bonds prepaid bribery, postpaid bribery, post-raid bribery and through farzi companies”. Ramesh said the FIR was lodged on orders of the court and the congress has nothing to do with the FIR. He said the congress has been demanding a Supreme-court monitored inquiry through an SIT into the electoral bonds scheme and reiterates that demand.
Moreover according to police, an FIR was registered under IPC sections 384 (punishment for extortion), 120B (criminal conspiracy) and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) against Sitharaman, ED officials, office-bearers of the bjp at state and national level, based on the order of a special court. The complaint was lodged by adarsh R Iyer, Co-President of ‘Janaadhikaara Sangharsha Parishath’ (JSP) alleging that the accused “committed extortion under the guise and garb of electoral bonds” and benefited to the tune of more than Rs 8,000 crore.
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