Will shut Modi’s school of corruption, says Rahul

Taking a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over electoral bonds, former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Saturday accused him of running a “school of corruption” in the country.

Mr. Gandhi’s remark came as he shared a video of a new Congress advertisement, attacking the BJP over the electoral bonds issue, on social media platform X (formerly Twitter). “Narendra Modi is running a ‘school of corruption’ in the country, where under the subject ‘entire corruption science’, he is teaching every chapter in detail, including ‘donation business’,” Mr. Gandhi said in a post.

The former Congress chief said the Prime Minister was teaching chapters on how donations were collected through raids and how contracts were distributed after taking donations. “How does the washing machine that washes the corrupt work? How is the game of ‘bail and jail’ played by turning agencies into recovery agents,” he said.

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Mr. Gandhi alleged that the BJP, that had become a “den of corrupt people”, had made this “crash course” mandatory for its leaders, and the country was paying the price for it. “An INDIA bloc government will shut this ‘school of corruption’ and end this course forever,” he said.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge too shared the same advertisement on X and said, “Don’t choose ‘hafta vasuli [extortionist] government, choose change. Vote for the Congress.”

After the Supreme Court called the electoral bonds scheme “ïllegal” and struck it down, the Congress has stepped up its attack on the ruling party, alleging that the electoral bonds data has exposed “corrupt tactics” of the BJP, including quid pro quo and grant of protection to donors.