New Delhi: As an unrelenting Congress continues to attack the BJP over the Hindenburg report allegations against the Adani group, the BJP on Sunday launched a social media campaign against the Congress and its previous regimes. In the campaign titled "Congress Files", launched on the BJP's official social media platforms, the ruling party claims that during the Congress-led regimes, the party has looted '48,20,69,00,00,000 from the public in the 70 years of its rule.
In the first episode of Season 1, of the campaign titled "Congress means corruption", the BJP claimed that the money that the Congress looted could have been used for various national security and development works.
"With this much money, the country could have gotten 24 INS Vikrant, 300 Rafale jets and 1,000 Mangal Missions could have been made or purchased. But the country had to bear the cost of the Congress' corruption and it lagged behind in the race for progress," the video message claimed.
On several occasions, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also mentioned that the country lost precious time and lagged behind on development because of corruption. He termed the Congress-led UPA tenure from 2004–2014 as a "lost decade".
"Keeping the whole 70 years aside, if we only look at the last tenure of 2004–14, it was a lost decade. The government was led by Manmohan Singh, who turned a blind eye to all the corruption that kept on happening under his rule," the BJP claimed in the video.
The BJP claimed that during the previous UPA regime, newspapers were filled with news of corruption. The saffron party listed out the coal scam of Rs 1.86 lakh crores, 2G Spectrum scam of Rs 1.76 lakh crores, MNREGA scam of Rs 10 lakh crores, Commonwealth scam of Rs 70,000 crores, bribe of Rs 362 crores in the helicopter deal with Italy and Rs 12 crores bribe for the chairman of the Railway Board reported during the previous UPA regime and claimed that it humiliated every Indian.
The video ends with the BJP claiming that "this is only the jhanki (trailer) of Congress' corruption; the movie is still not over."
For its part, the Congress too had been attacking the BJP over the Adani issue by issuing multiple sets of questions under the campaign "Hum Adani Ke Hain Kaun" for the BJP leadership.
