{"id":253095,"date":"2022-10-29T20:47:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/?p=253095"},"modified":"2022-10-29T20:47:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T20:47:00","slug":"rahul-gandhis-paypm-swipe-after-karnataka-sweet-box-bribe-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2022\/10\/29\/rahul-gandhis-paypm-swipe-after-karnataka-sweet-box-bribe-row\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Gandhi’s “PayPM” Swipe After Karnataka “Sweet Box Bribe” Row"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Congress’s Rahul Gandhi-led ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ was recently in Karnataka. (File)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi doubled down on allegations of corruption against the BJP government in Karnataka \u2014 citing reports of “cash gifts” to journalists \u2014 and pulled in the Prime Minister, too, for the party’s much-used wordplay using payments app PayTM.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The BJP government of ‘PayCM’ and ‘PayPM’,” he said in a tweet, stands for “corruption of ‘double engine’ across the country”, taking a swipe at Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai and PM Narendra Modi.<\/p>\n

“Before the election, ‘Neither will I take bribe, nor will I allow it’. After election \u2014 will eat ‘40% commission’, then send bribes to Karnataka media in sweet boxes on Diwali,”\u00a0Rahul Gandhi <\/a>tweeted,\u00a0in Hindi, citing PM Modi’s “Na khaunga, na khane dunga” <\/em>promise.<\/p>\n

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\u2018PayCM’ \u0914\u0930 \u2018PayPM’ \u0915\u0940 \u092d\u093e\u091c\u092a\u093e \u0938\u0930\u0915\u093e\u0930, \u092a\u0942\u0930\u0947 \u0926\u0947\u0936 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u2018\u0921\u092c\u0932 \u0907\u0902\u091c\u0928’ \u0915\u093e \u092d\u094d\u0930\u0937\u094d\u091f\u093e\u091a\u093e\u0930\u0964<\/p>\n

\u2014 Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) October 29, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Congress has alleged \u2014 as have other parties and groups \u2014 that the Karnataka government takes a “40 per cent cut” in awarding contracts.<\/p>\n

The latest row came after\u00a0allegations that an official from Chief Minister Bommai’s office gave “cash gifts” ranging from\u00a0Rs 1 lakh to 2.5 lakh with sweet boxes to some journalists<\/a> on Diwali.\u00a0The Congress has demanded a judicial inquiry.<\/p>\n

The BJP has said the accusation is “far from the truth”, and that the Congress is getting desperate ahead of the state elections due next year.<\/p>\n

Three of over 10 journalists who allegedly received the boxes confirmed cash was distributed; two of them said they gave the money back to the CMO, according to\u00a0a report in The News Minute<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

An activist group has filed a complaint with the Karnataka Lokayukta, the anti-corruption ombudsman, against Basavaraj Bommai’s\u00a0media adviser for allegedly attempting to bribe journalists.<\/p>\n

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