The Congress on Saturday reiterated its demand for a Supreme Court-monitored SIT probe into the electoral bonds issue, alleging that the “opaque scheme” ensured that prepaid, postpaid and even post-raid bribes could be routed through the banking channel.
At a press conference, Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi, alleging that the person who gave a guarantee of 'bringing back black money', instead “legalized corruption and is desperately trying to hide it”.
The opposition party also released a “python code” due to which, it claimed, it took less than 15 seconds to match the donors with political parties, “exposing the brazen and ridiculous claim of the SBI that it would take months to provide the data asked by the Supreme Court”.
The Congress has highlighted four patterns of “blatant corruption” in the “electoral bonds scam -- Chanda Do, Dhanda Lo i.E. Prepaid Bribe; 'Theka Lo, Rishvat Do i.E. Postpaid Bribe; Hafta Vasooli i.E. Extortion/Post-raid Bribe; Farzi Company i.E. Shell Companies”, he said.
Ramesh alleged that the analysis using the code has brought to light that 38 corporate groups which have got 179 major contracts and projects approvals from the central or BJP state governments have donated electoral bonds.
These companies have got a total worth of Rs 3.8 lakh crore in projects and contracts, in exchange for Rs 2,004 crore in electoral bonds donations to the BJP, Ramesh claimed.
