
Union Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Kiren Rijiju Monday stated the alleged hyperlinks between the Congress and Hungarian-American businessman ought to be thought of “critical” and urged the opposition occasion to battle unitedly in opposition to “anti-India forces”. He additionally stated the matter shouldn’t be seen via a “political lens.”
“I want to inform the leaders and employees of the Congress that even when their very own occasion leaders are discovered to be working in tandem with anti-India forces, they need to elevate their voice in opposition to them,” Rijiju stated, talking forward of the day’s Parliament session in Delhi.
The BJP minister’s assertion comes a day after the BJP alleged that former Congress president Sonia Gandhi has hyperlinks to an organisation financed by the George Soros Basis and which has backed the concept of Kashmir as an impartial nation.
Additional, Rijiju stated that the federal government doesn’t view this subject as occasion politics.
“We now have informed Congress and different events that we’ll talk about over the Structure on December 13 and 14 (in Lok Sabha) and on December 16 and 17 (in Rajya Sabha),” he added.
BJP’s claims on Sonia Gandhi-George Soros hyperlink
The BJP on Sunday alleged that former Congress president Sonia Gandhi is the co-president of the Discussion board of the Democratic Leaders in Asia Pacific (FDL-AP) Basis which is linked to an organisation financed by the George Soros Basis.
“Notably, the FDL-AP Basis has expressed their views that deal with Kashmir as a separate entity,” the BJP stated.
The ruling occasion has on a number of events accused Soros of being an anti-national drive, with Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar calling him “previous, opinionated and harmful” in February 2023.
Earlier on Thursday, BJP MP Sambit Patra referred to as the Lok Sabha Chief of Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi a “traitor of the best order”, levelling accusations in opposition to him of conspiring to “destabilise” the nation.
Together with Gandhi, Patra named George Soros and the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Challenge (OCCRP), a world collective of investigative journalists, as forming a “harmful triangle”.
With inputs from PTI