BJP’S ‘Congress Files’ set to fight Adani probe demand

As an unrelenting Congress continues to attack the BJP over the Hindenburg report allegations against the Adani group, the BJP on Sunday launched a social media campaign against the Congress and its previous regimes. In the campaign titled “Congress Files”, launched on the BJP'S official social media platforms, the ruling party claims that during the Congress-led regimes, the party has looted `48,20,69,00,00,000 from the public in the 70 years of its rule.

In the first episode of Season 1, of the campaign titled “Congress means corruption”, the BJP claimed that the money that the Congress looted could have been used for various national security and development works.

“With this much money, the country could have gotten 24 INS Vikrant, 300 Rafale jets and 1,000 Mangal Missions could have been made or purchased. But the country had to bear the cost of the Congress’ corruption and it lagged behind in the race for progress,” the video message claimed.

On several occasions, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also mentioned that the country lost precious time and lagged behind on development because of corruption. He termed the Congress-led UPA 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,” the BJP claimed in the video.

The BJP claimed that during the previous UPA regime, newspapers were filled with news of corruption.