Home Ministry sets up panel to coordinate probe into 3 Gandhi family trusts
The allegations against Rajiv Gandhi Foundation were leveled by BJP chief JP Nadda last month amid the ongoing war of words with the Opposition over the Ladakh face-off.
The Union home ministry has set up an inter-ministerial committee to coordinate investigations into allegations against Rajiv Gandhi Foundation (RGF), Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust, and Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust of violating the legal provisions of money laundering act, Income Tax Act and foreign contribution act.
Affirming it, a home ministry representative said that Special Director of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) will head the advisory group. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will likewise be a piece of the advisory group.
While previous Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress pioneers Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, and P Chidambaram are trustees of RGF, which was set up in June 1991. Sonia Gandhi is the executive of RGF and Rajiv Gandhi Charitable Trust. She has likewise been supervising crafted by Indira Gandhi Memorial Trust.
The charges against RGF were leveled by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) boss JP Nadda a month ago in the midst of the continuous war of words with the Opposition over the Ladakh go head to head.
In a progression of tweets, Nadda said that the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund (PMNRF) gave cash to RGF. He said “one family’s crave riches” hurt the country, and furthermore blamed the Congress for submitting a “baldfaced misrepresentation” by redirecting open cash into a “family-run establishment”.
Nadda likewise posted pictures of arrangements of contributors to RGF for the years 2007-2008 and 2005-2006 to back his case. The rundown incorporated a few state-possessed organizations, including the State Bank of India and GAIL, and services including the ministry of home issues and the ministry of wellbeing.
“PMNRF, intended to help individuals in trouble, was giving cash to Rajiv Gandhi Foundation in UPA years. Who sat on the PMNRF board? Smt. Sonia Gandhi. Who seats RGF? Smt. Sonia Gandhi. Absolutely unpardonable, ignoring morals, forms and not bothering about straightforwardness,” Nadda tweeted.
Union law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had claimed that RGF pushed for a facilitated commerce understanding among India and China, prompting a colossal exchange shortfall slanted for Beijing.
In its reaction, the Congress said the BJP was taking part in diversionary strategies, addressed it on visits and trades between the BJP and the Communist Party of China (CPC) over the previous decade, and claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi shared an “odd bonhomie” with China even as the outskirts were shaky.
PMNRF was set up in 1948 by India’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, altogether with open commitments. It doesn’t get any budgetary help. PMNRF assets are used fundamentally to offer alleviation to groups of those executed in common disasters, and to survivors of significant mishaps and uproars, as per its site.
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