Claims & counter claims over ‘China donation to RGF’: Story to this level in pics

Amid an ongoing confrontation over the Sino-India standoff in japanese Ladakh, the BJP on June 25 accused the Congress of receiving a huge donation of $300,000 from the Chinese Embassy in 2005-06

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Bharatiya Janata Celebration | Congress Celebration | Jagat Prakash Nadda

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The Rajiv Gandhi Basis (RGF), which was  was purpose up on June 21, 1991, works on a vogue of vital disorders comparable to health, literacy, science and know-how, girls folk’s and youngsters’s type, disability reinforce, Panchayati Raj institutions, natural handy resource management, and libraries. The muse is headed by Sonia Gandhi, chief of the Indian Nationwide Congress Celebration. Varied trustees comprise Manmohan Singh, P Chidambaram, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Suman Dubey, Rahul Gandhi, Dr Sekhar Raha, Prof MS Swaminathan, Dr Ashok Ganguly, Shri Sanjiv Goenka and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. 

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The Congress birthday celebration said the Rajiv Gandhi Basis (RGF) grief raised by the BJP government was a “manufactured fee” and “diversionary tactic” to deflect attention from the LAC disaster, and the cash the NGO got from China was used for the welfare of otherwise-abled of us and research on Sino-India family. 

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Senior Congress chief P Chidambaram asked whether Prime Minister Narendra Modi would divulge the country that China would vacate Indian territory and restore declare quo ante at the border, if the Rajiv Gandhi Basis returned Rs 20 lakh it had taken as donation earlier. Chidambaram accused him of talking “half of-truths” and asked him to “come to phrases with actuality” and never are residing within the past. He additionally asked the BJP president to answer the questions raised by the Congress on the Chinese intrusion into the Indian territory.

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The Shiv Sena hit out at the BJP over its fee that the Rajiv Gandhi Basis (RGF) had authorized donations from the Chinese embassy, and asked it whether the grief had any connection with intrusion by the neighbouring country in Ladakh and the martyrdom of 20 Indian troopers. The Sena additionally alleged that those raising questions against the federal government over the standoff with China were being labelled as Chinese agents by the BJP.

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Nadda alleged that the RGF, which is headed by Sonia Gandhi, continually got donations from the Chinese embassy between 2005-09, from the “tax haven” of Luxemburg, which is stuffed with “hawala transactions”, between 2006-09. NGOs and firms with “deep industrial pursuits” additionally donated to the muse. Addressing a press convention, he launched a scathing assault on Congress birthday celebration and alleged that below the UPA regime, many central ministries and PSUs were forced to present cash to the RGF. Nationwide interest was “sacrificed” and donations into the family-speed foundation were authorized, Nadda said. Nadda asked the Congress on Saturday to come support superb on its “links” with China, and the vital facets of its MoU with the Communist Celebration of China. 

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Union minister Smriti Irani hit out at Sonia Gandhi over the Rajiv Gandhi Basis row, alleging that the Congress president left “no stone unturned to loot the country for her teenagers”. She additionally in reality handy that love Amethi, the Congress will face electoral defeat in Nehru-Gandhi family’s pocket borough of Rae Bareli.