The Union Home Ministry has set up a committee to investigate organisations such as,
RGF, RGCT and the IGMT
It was because there were alegations that the organisations commited financial fraud and broke laws such as
Money Laundering Act, Income Tax Act and Foreign Contribution Act.
A Home Ministry spokesperson said,
the Special Director of the ED will head the committee.
The CBI will also be part of the committee to investigate the 3 organisations.
Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh,
Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, his sister Priyanka Gandhi
and P Chidambaram
are Trustees of the RGF that was set up in 1991.
Sonia Gandhi is the chairperson of RGF and RGCT.
She also looks after the workings of IGMT.
BJP chief J P Nadda
hurled accusations of money laundering and violating laws against RGF and Gandhi family.
In his Tweets he said,
"The Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund (PMNRF)
are donations collected from civilians to provide relief during natural calamities, major accidents, etc.
The PMNRF had donated money to RGF.
Shockingly Congress Government had diverted the funds to their own family run organisations.
The Gandhi family is hungry for wealth.
They donations collected through PMNRF was shameless diverted to their organisations."
Nadda also posted images of lists of donors to RGF for the years 2007-2008 and 2005-2006 as proof.
The BJP also said that Congress had received funds from China to conduct studies,
that would lead to India’s loss. Congress did this without caring for the nation.
Union law minister Ravi Shankar Prasad had said
RGF pushed for a free trade agreement between India and China, which benefited China.
In its response, the Congress said the BJP
was engaging in diversionary tactics to divert attention
from the true problems of the country by making such false accusation on the Congress,
Congress questioned the BJP
about visits and exchanges between the BJP and the Communist Party of China in the past decade.
Congress expressed their shock by saying, despite border issues with China
but still Prime Minister Narendra Modi shared a strange bonhomie with China.