‘Electoral Bond is the biggest corruption in the country’s history’, says Sudhir Kumar Murolli
Udupi: State Congress spokesperson Sudhir Kumar Murolli opined that the electoral bond scam revealed by the Supreme Court of India is the greatest corruption the country has ever seen. He was addressing the media at District Congress office at Bramhagiri in Udupi before a meeting convened on upcoming Lok Sabha polls.
Congratulating the Supreme Court for this daring disclosure, Murolli stated that Centre had accumulated thousands of crores through electoral bonds from companies which were threatened by CBI, IT and ED raids. He expressed shock about nationalistic BJP obtaining bonds from a Pakistani company. “The information shows that most of the fraudulent companies in the country have donated to BJP”, he added.
Quoting Supreme Court lawyers Prashant Bhushan and Kapil Sibal, Murolli said that 90% of donations in the yet undisclosed electoral bonds procured in 2018-19 belonged to BJP. “If SBI follows the deadline given by the court, more details of the scam shall be out”, he hoped.
Sudhir Kumar Murolli explained how the then Finance Minister Arun Jaitley under the Modi government had brought changes in the donations act by introducing Finance Bill-2017 which ended transparency in the process. “This horrifying scam has seen light only due to a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) put in the Supreme Court by Association for Democracy Reforms and CPM. 14 out of 30 major companies were raided by IT, ED or CBI before they purchased the bond”, he added. A company building the faulty tunnel which trapped 41 workers and Chennai ‘Lottery King’ Martin’s company which showed only 220 crore profit has also donated thousands of crores to BJP, Murolli said.
When asked about his aspiration to get ticket for Udupi-Chikkamagaluru constituency, Murolli said that his aspiration would end once the name of the candidate was announced and he would work for anyone named by the party. “It is all a part of internal democracy of the party”, he stated.
Speaking on Kota Srinivas Poojary’s candidature, Murolli said “BJP has given tickets to many like Poojary who didn’t ask for it. Even if he loses, he still has the constitutional duty of being the opposition leader”.
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UP: Misled by GPS navigation, car falls into river from partially constructed bridge, 3 dead
Bareilly (UP), Nov 24: Three people died when their car fell into the Ramganga river from a partially constructed bridge here on Sunday, police said, adding that they suspect the driver was misled by its navigation system into taking the unsafe route.
The accident occurred around 10 am on the Khalpur-Dataganj road when the victims were travelling from Bareilly to Dataganj in the Badaun district, they said.
"Earlier this year, floods had caused the front portion of the bridge to collapse into the river, but this change had not been updated in the system," Circle Officer Ashutosh Shivam said.
The driver was using a navigation system and did not realise that the bridge was unsafe, driving the car off the damaged section, the police said.
There were no safety barriers or warning signs on the approach to the damaged bridge, leading to the fatal accident, Shivam said.
Upon receiving information, police teams from Faridpur, Bareilly and Dataganj police station rushed to the spot. They recovered the vehicle and the bodies from the river, Shivam added.
The circle officer said that bodies had been sent for post-mortem. Further investigation into the matter is underway.
— Bareilly Police (@bareillypolice) November 24, 2024
