Lok Sabha Polls | Modi and his party are the most corrupt in the world: G.Ramakrishnan in Dharmapuri

CPM leader criticizes PM Modi and BJP as corrupt, highlighting Supreme Court's Electoral Bonds ruling and lack of disaster response.

G. Ramakrishnan, CPI (M) Polit Bureau Member called Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his party the most corrupt in the world and that the Supreme Court striking down the Electoral Bonds was a testament to that.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has visited the State seven times after elections were announced, but not once when the State was reeling under the floods, Mr Ramakrishnan said, here on Wednesday.

Speaking to the media on the sidelines of his campaign for Dharmapuri’s DMK candidate A. Mani, the CPM leader said, normally any Prime Minister would at least visit a disaster-struck State. But this Prime Minister neither visited Tamil Nadu nor Manipur that was burning in violence, where people were killed.

Slamming Mr. Modi’s claims in his recent speech that the INDIA alliance wanted to win the elections solely to protect the corrupt, Mr. Ramakrishnan said, it has been widely proven that the BJP was the most corrupt party in the world and that it legalised corruption as was revealed in the Supreme Court striking down the Electoral Bonds flagging them as a means to corruption. This only attested to the corruption of the BJP even from the highest court.

The BJP introduced Electoral bonds for political funding in 2017, by amending 5 laws – Income Tax Act, Representation of People’s Act, company law, FERA Act, and the RBI Act and at one go, weakened the Right to Information Act, Mr. Ramakrishnan said.

By this, the BJP turned the ED, Income Tax Department, and the CBI into its own musclemen.

Explaining the corruption intrinsic to the scheme of Electoral Bonds, Mr. Ramakrishnan pointed the Supreme Court flagging quid pro quo built into the scheme. “If a company failed to contribute to the BJP, these three agencies would raid the companies. Over 38 companies won 179 contracts to the tune of ₹2.80 lakh crore and of the total contributions of ₹16,492 crore, ₹8,252 crore went to the BJP. This was Modigate,” the CPM leader said.