PM, EAM should reply why govt silent regardless of Trump ‘insulting’ India: Congress
“However now it’s coming to mild that this whole information is faux. When the cash has not even reached India, then what can be the cancellation?” he stated.
The controversy is definitely about two USAID grants on DOGE’s record that got via the Washington-based Consortium for Elections and Political Course of Strengthening (CEPPS), the Congress chief stated.
The CEPPS was purported to obtain a complete of USD 486 million from USAID, he stated, including that in keeping with DOGE, the funds included USD 22 million for Moldova and USD 21 million for “voter turnout in India”, he stated.
“The primary fund USAID gave to CEPPS for Moldova was in 2016 with the ID AID117LA1600001. However the USAID USD 21 million grant for India marked by DOGE is totally faux. As a result of it was for Bangladesh, not India,” he claimed.
And the truth is that of the USD 21 million earmarked for Bangladesh, USD 13.4 million has already been disbursed earlier than the January 2024 elections, Ramesh stated.
“Each federal grant specifies the nation by which it’s for use. In line with US federal spending, there have been no USAID-funded CEPPS tasks in India since 2008. The one ongoing USD 21 million USAID grant to CEPPS, ID 72038822LA00001, was authorised in July 2022 for Bangladesh’s ‘Amar Vote Amar’ (My Vote Is Mine),” he identified.
“In November 2022, the aim of the grant was modified to ‘USAID’s Nagorik Programme’. A USAID official in Dhaka additionally confirmed this on social media throughout his US go to in December 2024: ‘I handle the USD 21 million CEPPS/Nagorik mission funded by USAID’,” Ramesh stated.
“Now the BJP ought to simply reply this: Why did the BJP unfold faux information about India’s democracy? Why did the BJP did anti-national work by spreading faux information from America? If BJP’s accusing India’s opposition social gathering over faux information from America will not be treason, then what’s it?” he stated.
Ramesh stated “Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar may also must reply, Donald Trump and Elon Musk are insulting India time and again, and why is our authorities silent on this?”
The Congress chief stated “Is it the case that the nation’s self-respect has been compromised within the strategy of begging for mercy for Adani?”
Trump for the fourth time in latest days has claimed that the Biden administration allotted USD 21 million funding to India for voter turnout , evoking a pointy response from the Congress which urged Prime Minister Modi to speak to his buddy and strongly refute the allegation.
