Rahul Gandhi questions BJP’s campaign fund source

New Delhi: Training guns at the BJP and its PM candidate Narendra Modi over election expenditure, Congress vice-president Mr Rahul Gandhi claimed that corporate houses were pumping money into the saffron party’s campaign and asked it to come clean on their source of funds.

Speaking at an election rally, Mr Gandhi said, “They (the BJP) do politics of two-three corporate houses as they gift them mota paisa (big money). From where is the money for big cutouts and posters coming?” He arrived in his constituency on Saturday for a two-day campaign.

Mr Gandhi also alleged that Mr Modi gave nearly Rs 26,000 crore of electricity and Rs 15,000 crore worth land to one industrialist, which is much more than the Rs 30,000 crore that the Congress gave to the poor through MGNREGA in a year.

Meanwhile, the BJP on Saturday approached the poll panel to seek action against Mr Gandhi, claiming that he had made a “highly provocative” statement that 22,000 people will be killed in the country if Narendra Modi becomes the PM during a poll rally in Himachal Pradesh on Friday.

BJP leader Ananth Kumar said, “The CEC assured us that appropriate act-ion will be taken after looking into it.” The BJP delegation, which also included Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and Chandan Mitra, also alleged that rigging, booth capturing had taken place along with violence in West Bengal during polls on April 30 and demanded increased arrangements during the remaining two phases of polling.