Amit Shah mocked Rahul Gandhi about electoral connections with his “hafta vasooli”

Union home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday lashed out at Congress MP Rahul Gandhi over the latter’s ‘biggest extortion racket’ jibe on electoral bonds. “Gandhi also got ₹1,600 crore. He should explain where he got that ‘hafta vasooli’ from. We say it is a transparent donation, but if he says it is vasooli, he should give details.”

When asked if the Bharatiya Janata Party would declare the list of donors, the minister said that the India bloc would ‘not be able to show its face’. Last week, several political parties revealed the source and amount of donations received through poll bonds. According to the EC data, BJP had received ₹6,061 crore (47.5% of total redeemed value), followed by the Trinamool Congress with ₹1,610 crore (12.6%) and Congress with ₹1,422 crore (11.1%)

With ₹1,368 crore, Future Gaming of lottery king Santiago Martin was the largest buyer of electoral bonds; roughly 37% of that amount went to the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), the ruling party in Tamil Nadu.

The Janata Dal (Secular), led by HD Deve Gowda, was given bonds valued at ₹89.75 crore, of which ₹50 crore came from Megha Engineering, which is the second biggest buyer of electoral bonds.

“There is a claim that we have had a large number of donations. This is untrue to the core. In contrast to the ‘Indi Alliance’ led by Rahul Gandhi, which received more than ₹6,200 crore, we have received ₹6,200 crore. How many seats does the ‘Indi Alliance’ have, considering that we have 303 seats and governments in 17 states? stated the Union home minister.

Shah made this comment after the Supreme Court declared electoral bonds to be “unconstitutional.” While expressing respect for the ruling of the Supreme Court, the minister claimed that poll bonds had nearly put an end to the use of dark money in politics.

Shah went on to criticize the INDIA bloc, claiming that they supported the “old system of cutting money to rule over politics once again” and that this was why they opposed the bonds.

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