Gandhi family threatened Rana Kapoor to buy painting worth Rs 2 crore: BJP

The BJP, which has rolled up its arms to siege the Congress on the issue of corruption, has brought out a digital weapon named “Congress Files”. In the second episode titled “Grace Means Corruption”, the BJP has opened a page to buy Rana Kapoor’s paintings. Enforcement Directorate allegation Quoting the chargesheet of the Enforcement Directorate, it has been alleged that the Gandhi family not only coerced Yes Bank co-founder Rana Kapoor to buy the painting for Rs 2 crore by threatening it, but also offered the Padma Bhushan award in lieu of extortion. Had given. In episode 2 of “The Congress Files” The BJP, in the second episode of “Congress Files” released on Monday, claimed that the FATF report used to have case studies of countries like Pakistan funding terrorism, but today it is a case study of the corruption of the Gandhi family. The case of Rana Kapoor is also related to this. The BJP alleges that Rana Kapoor revealed to the ED that he was coerced into buying a painting by MF Hussain from Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, worth Rs two crore. This money was used for the treatment of UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi. It has been claimed that the ED’s charge sheet also records Rana Kapoor saying that the then Petroleum Minister Murli Deora warned him that if he refused to buy the painting, his relations with the Gandhi family could deteriorate. In the ED’s charge sheet, Rana Kapoor has also said that he had paid Rs 2 crore to Priyanka Gandhi through a cheque, whose photograph is also there. Miling Deora wrote a letter to Rana Kapoor On May 1, 2010, Murli Deora’s son Milling Deora wrote a letter to Rana Kapoor, through which Rana Kapoor was pressurized to write a letter to Priyanka Gandhi to buy the painting. Not only this, senior party leader Ahmed Patel had also promised Padma Bhushan on behalf of the Gandhi family to extort money in the name of this painting. Describing it as shameful, the BJP raised the question that how many national honors have been weighed by the Congress with money. Said that the Congress does not have the answer to this, because there are so many stories of scams of the Congress era that the Congress does not have the account.