“How much forest land has been lost to electoral bonds? Which Adivasi communities have had to bear the burden of keeping the BJP’s coffers full?” he said.Noting that pharma companies have given thousands of crores in electoral bonds, Ramesh said some big donors, such as Hetero Drugs, have had to recall medicines from the US market due to impurities found by the American regulators.Have India’s medicine regulators allowed tainted medicines in the market in exchange for electoral bonds, he asked.”The largest electoral bond donor, at almost Rs 1,400 crores, is Future Gaming & Hotels.It turns out that the son of the owner of Future is a member of the BJP and that the owner himself met Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in April 2023 despite facing many CBI cases,” Ramesh claimed.How many more fraudulent companies on the list have close BJP links, he asked.”In addition to these corrupt practices that have emerged through the electoral bond scam, this morning, news has come out of an US investigation into Mr Modi’s favourite business group,” he said.The Congress had earlier raised 100 questions on the “Modani Scam” in its ‘Hum Adani Ke Hain Kaun’ series, Ramesh said.”Between the Modani Scam and the Electoral Bond Scam, the Prime Minister has scaled the Mount Everest of corruption,” he said.”Governance in Modi’s India has been about ‘Jitna chanda, Utna haq’,” Ramesh said.
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