Modi and his party are the most corrupt in the world, says G. Ramakrishnan
CPI (M) Politburo member G. Ramakrishnan, on Wednesday, called Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) the most corrupt in the world and the Supreme Court striking down the electoral bonds was a testament to that.
Speaking to the media on the sidelines of his campaign for Dharmapuri’s DMK candidate A. Mani, the CPI (M) leader said that Mr. Modi had visited Tamil Nadu seven times after elections were announced, but not once when the State was reeling under the floods.
Mr. Ramakrishnan said the BJP introduced electoral bonds for political funding in 2017, by amending five laws – Income Tax Act, Representation of People’s Act, company law, FERA Act, and the RBI Act and at one go, weakened the Right to Information Act. By this, the BJP turned the ED, Income Tax Department, and the CBI into its own musclemen. “If a company failed to contribute to the BJP, these three agencies would raid the companies. Over 38 companies won 179 contracts to the tune of ₹2.80 lakh crore and of the total contributions of ₹16,492 crore, ₹8,252 crore went to the BJP. This was Modigate,” he said.
Mr. Ramakrishnan criticised Modi for deflecting attention from his party’s corruption through electoral bonds, by arresting Delhi
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Jharkhand’s former Chief Minister Hemant Soren and freezing the accounts of the Congress.
In Tamil Nadu, AIADMK today claims to oppose the BJP. But the party, under Edappadi K. Palaniswami, supported each and every policy and unjust laws of the BJP including the CAA and the scrapping of Article 370.
In the last decade, the household debt in the country has gone up from 23% of the GDP in 2014 to 40% of the GDP and signals fall into individual income. India is officially a country with highest economic disparity in the world. This is the backdrop, and this is why BJP should not come back to power, Mr. Ramakrishnan said.
About PMK’s claims to reservations for the MBCs, the CPM leader said, Tamil Nadu has reservations up to 69% and this was because of the Dravidian movement.