Rahul Gandhi has targeted PM Modi over the investigation of three trusts, including the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation. He said that those fighting for truth cannot be intimidated.
New Delhi: The central government has formed an inter-ministerial team to investigate three trusts belonging to the Nehru-Gandhi family, including the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation. These trusts are accused of violating various laws including money laundering and foreign donations. The Congress has described it as an intimidating action.
Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi tweeted, “Mr. Modi feels that the whole world is like him. He thinks that everyone has a price or that everyone can be intimidated. They will never understand that Those who fight for the truth have no value and cannot be intimidated. “
Home Ministry tweeted: According to a spokesperson of the Union Home Ministry, the inter-ministerial team will be headed by a special director of the Enforcement Directorate (ED).
The spokesperson tweeted, “The Union Ministry of Home Affairs has taken various legal provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), Income Tax Law, Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) by Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust, Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust. An inter-ministerial team has been formed to coordinate investigation in cases of violations.
The charge was made by BJP leaders that
this decision has been taken after about two weeks when the BJP said that the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation has received funds from the Chinese Embassy. This charge was raised in the middle of a deadlock between the Indian Army and the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) of China in Ladakh.
A few years ago, while attacking the Congress for receiving funds from the Chinese Embassy of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation, Union Minister BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad questioned whether it was given in order to raise favor for the free trade agreement between India and China. There was ‘bribe’.
Prasad attacked the opposition party after raising this issue at a digital rally organized by BJP president JP Nadda for party workers in Madhya Pradesh.
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Rajiv Gandhi Foundation Rajiv Gandhi Foundation was established in 1991 with the objective of realizing the “vision of a modern, secular and progressive India of the former Prime Minister; A country that embodies the democratic principle of equality and is a mixture of progress and rich cultural traditions. “
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The foundation is headed by Sonia Gandhi. Other trustees include former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, former Finance Minister P Chidambaram, former Deputy Chief of Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Suman Dubey, Ashok Ganguly and Sanjeev Goenka.
The Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust (RGCT) was established in 2002 and aimed to “see the development needs of the underprivileged in the country especially the rural poor” and work in Uttar Pradesh and Haryana.
Among the trustees of RGCT are Sonia Gandhi (head), Rahul Gandhi, Ashok Ganguly and Bansi Mehta. Its chief executive officer is Deep Joshi.
