Amid the growing concerns over the USAID funding, Congress has slammed the ruling BJP for “anti-national work” by spreading “fake news from America” and asked why Prime Minister Narendra Modi and external affairs minister S Jaishankar remain silent on insults to India by US president Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
Congress general secretary in-charge Jairam Ramesh said, “BJP is a procession of liars and illiterates. The news about USD 21 million, on which the BJP and their bootlickers were jumping on, turned out to be fake. The USD 21 million in 2022 was not for ‘voter turnout’ in India, but for Bangladesh.”
The Congress MP said in a Hindi post on X that ever since the Trump administration’s DOGE said on February 16 that USAID had canceled the USD 21 million funding for “voting in India,” the BJP has been making fabricated allegations against the party.
“But now it is coming to light that this entire news is fake. When the money has not even reached India, then what would be the cancellation?” he said.
