Congress chief Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday urged the Election Fee to answer a report alleging that ten “nameless events” in Gujarat obtained Rs 4,300 crore as funds in 5 years, regardless that they not often contested polls.
The ten political events obtained these funds from 2019-’20 to 2023-’24, Dainik Bhaskar reported on Tuesday.
This era encompassed the 2 Lok Sabha elections of 2019 and 2024, and the 2022 Meeting election within the state. The events fielded solely 43 candidates within the polls, who garnered solely 54,069 votes in whole, the newspaper reported.
Additional, these events reported bills of solely Rs 39.02 lakh, however their audit studies confirmed bills of Rs 3,500 crore, in response to Dainik Bhaskar.
The events are Lokshahi Satta Occasion, Bharatiya Nationwide Janata Dal, Swatantra Abhivyakti Occasion, New India United Occasion, Satyawadi Rakshak Occasion, Bharatiya Janparishad, Saurashtra Janata Paksh, Jan Man Occasion, Manavadhikar Nationwide Occasion and Gareeb Kalyan Occasion.
On Wednesday, Gandhi requested how these events procured hundreds of crores of rupees and the place the cash went.
“Will the Election Fee perform an investigation, or will it ask for an affidavit right here too,” the chief of Opposition within the Lok Sabha requested on X. “Or will it change legal guidelines, in order that this knowledge can be hidden?”
गुजरात में कुछ ऐसी अनाम पार्टियां हैं जिनका नाम किसी ने नहीं सुना – लेकिन 4300 करोड़ का चंदा मिला!
इन पार्टियों ने बहुत ही कम मौकों पर चुनाव लड़ा है, या उनपर खर्च किया है।
ये हजारों करोड़ आए कहां से? चला कौन रहा है इन्हें? और पैसा गया कहां?
क्या चुनाव आयोग जांच करेगा – या फिर… pic.twitter.com/CuP9elwPaY
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) August 27, 2025
Gandhi was referring to the Election Fee’s demand that he furnish an affidavit to again his claims of large-scale irregularities within the Mahadevapura Meeting phase of the Bangalore Central parliamentary constituency.
The Congress chief had claimed that the celebration had spent six months inspecting the electoral rolls within the constituency and discovered discrepancies in 1,00,250 names. He alleged that this was proof of the Election Fee having colluded with the Bharatiya Janata Occasion.
In response to the allegations, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar mentioned that Gandhi must both put ahead the allegations within the type of an affidavit, or apologise to the nation.
