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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman must resign

Submitted by admin on October 5th, 2024

This conclave of Congress came after electoral bonds scheme FIR in the charges laid by the Bengaluru police.

This has applied to every party involved, right from the minister of finance. In particular, this FIR… has exposed, revealed, opened up, and exposed the BJP and its number one and two in particular,” said Cong MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi

After the Bengaluru police’s FIR against Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in an extortion and criminal conspiracy case through the now-abolished electoral bond scheme, the Congress on Sunday demanded that Sitharaman resign and told the High Court to provide a Supreme Court-monitored SIT for the allegations.

Besides Sitharaman, nomeletely were booked the unidentified officers of the enforcement directorate (ED) and the BJP workers both at the state and the national level.

Addressing a press conference at the party’s headquarters in Delhi on Sunday, Singhvi said, “The basic point, of course, is that in its efforts to undermine democracy BJP has always had evil intentions.”

‘And everybody is guilty, the finance minister as well’. Specifically, this FIR… has revealed, exposed, opened and exposed the real face of the BJP and, in particular, its number one and two,” Singhvi continued.

The senior leader also read out parts of the Supreme Court order in the case relating to electoral bonds.

While elaborating on the FIR, Singhvi said “it is not a routine FIR and it has been filed after the order from a court.”

“This is not just restricted to the finance minister who should resign anyway… In the name of the party and the country, we call for her resignation. Why do we not know where the buck stops on this,” he further said.

“We would like to expect that all those involved will be invited, and their accounts will be taken.” And based on that they will be arrested. This is the criminal procedure – which which is the same for all. It has been used in the last 10-12 years against political rivals of the BJP,” Singhvi said.

In the press conference, Congress MP & communication incharge Jairam Ramesh stated that there were four common modalities of ‘sheer corruption in the electrical bonds scheme which Supreme court had declared unconstitutional on Feb 15, 2024.

Prepaid bribe is the phrase ‘chanda do, dhanda lo,’ postpaid bribe is ‘theka lo, rishvat do,’third one is exertion, post-raid, ‘⁠hafta vasooli,’ finally the ‘⁠farzi company’ means a fictitious company. This is the background to the FIR The we The present FIR is based on these considerations. For four months we have been demanding that there should be an SIT of the Supreme Court,” said Ramesm.

Ramesh also reiterated that the finance minister should tender his/her resignation immediately because she is accused number one. She should step down on moral, political and judicial basis.” The CBI and the ED are directly affiliated with the finance ministry and the SBI also falls under it,” said Ramesh, and added to that that the “Congress has not a single thing to do with the FIR”.

Joining the complainant, Adarsh R Iyer, co-president Janaadhikaara Sangharsha Parishath, the other accused include Karnataka BJP president B Y Vijayendra and party leader Nalin Kumar Kateel.

According to the complaint, the corporates “M/s Sterlite and M/s Vedanta Company were subjected to raids by accused no.2 (ED) on multiple occasions” on account of which the firms were forced to buy electoral bonds worth Rs 230.15 crore in April 2019, August 2022, and November 2023.