New Delhi: The Congress on Friday slammed the BJP for levelling “baseless allegations” that it received foreign funding from agencies such as USAID.
The grand old party, on the other hand, accused the RSS of having taken money from the CIA to destabilise the Congress governments led by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi.
“The RSS has always been a puppet of the US”, party spokesperson Pawan Khera said while addressing a press conference here.
He also alleged oa massive “Ford Foundation funding” for the Anna Hazare-Kejriwal led protests in 2012 to destabilise the Congress-led UPA government at the centre.
Khera took a dig at the BJP government including its National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, over its “baseless allegations” of $21 million USAID for voter turnout in India.
Referring to a media report proving these allegations “false”, he asked Doval, as to what he was doing if the USAID really pumped $21 million into India.
“It is a slap on your face that you have been caught unawares,” he told the government.
He claimed that the aid was actually sent to Bangladesh by the USAID.
He further asked, “What were the IB and the RAW doing when the USAID pumped huge funds into a neighbouring country to destabilise the government there?”
In a pithy remark, Kherea said he felt “bad” for Modi’s friend Guatam Adani who suffered losses due to the regime change there, allegedly funded by the USAID.
Questioning the audacity of the BJP to accuse the Congress of taking foreign aid, Khera referred to alleged revelations made by a former CIA agent wherein he revealed that the RSS received massive aid for its “cow protection” protests, whose actual aim was to destabilise the government led by Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.
He alleged that the “RSS had even planned the murder of the then Congress president K Kamaraj”.
The Congress spokesperson claimed that continuing with its relationship with the US, the RSS also took the US help to promote Jai Prakash Naryana’s movement against Indira Gandhi in 1974.
Khera also questioned Prime Minister Modi’s “meek surrender” before the US President Donald Trump during his recent visit where he had gone “uninvited”.
He said, “Modi was smiling, when Trump was slapping tariffs and insults on India. I wondered what made Modi smile when he should have protested the way Trump was announcing reciprocal tariffs on India”.
Khera also alleged that Union Minister Piyush Goyal and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis have regularly met the USAID officials.
He demanded the government bring out a “White Paper” about the funding by various aid agencies, whether these funds had come properly or illegally and whether these had been used or misused.
He announced that the Congress will soon come out with a “black paper” and reveal everything. UNI
