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Give Congress access to its bank accounts to ensure level playing field: Sonia Gandhi
Mar-21-2024

Former Congress President Sonia Gandhi has launched a sharp attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing him of a ‘systematic effort to cripple Congress financially’ ahead of general elections. She demanded that the party be given access to its bank accounts to ensure a level playing field in the run up to the Lok Sabha polls.

Addressing a press conference, Sonia Gandhi said, ‘This issue affects not just Congress, it impacts our democracy itself most fundamentally. A systematic effort is underway by the Prime Minister to cripple the Indian National Congress (INC) financially. Funds collected from the public are being frozen and money from our accounts is being taken away forcibly. However, even under these most challenging circumstances, we are doing our very best to maintain the effectiveness of our election campaign’. She said on the one hand is the electoral bonds issue, on the other, finances of the principal opposition party are under assault.

Rahul Gandhi said that the freezing of Congress's bank accounts has caused so much crunch that the party cannot do campaign work or even buy as much as a railway ticket to send their leaders from one part of the country to another. He also said that the freezing of Congress's bank accounts is actually the ‘freezing of Indian democracy’. Former Congress President alleged, terming the freezing of accounts a criminal action against the Congress and a criminal action by the prime minister and home minister. ‘There are institutions that are supposed to protect the democratic framework but nothing is happening’, he added. 

Congress Cheif Mallikarjun Kharge called out the ‘dangerous game’ being played by the ruling BJP. He said the party in power amassed funds through electoral bonds while freezing the Congress' accounts to create hurdles for it in fighting polls. ‘I appeal to constitutional bodies that they should allow our party to access bank accounts if they want free and fair polls,’ Kharge said.


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