Congress Hits Back At BJP With 10 Questions On Links With China

Congress Hits Back At BJP With 10 Questions On Links With China

New Delhi: The Congress hits back at BJP's recent comments, with 10 pointed questions on its relationships with China and Chinese Communist Party. The altercation between the political parties after the clashes in Ladakh with Chinese troops that martyred 20 Indian soldiers. The Bhartiya Janta Party has been calling out Congress party and its leadership over the past few days.

Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala, took on Bhartiya Janata Party's President JP Nadda for "his flailing attempts at distraction and diversion from the issues of national security and territorial integrity", and said that BJP itself is "scared of the questions being asked on its deep-rooted Chinese connections".

Mr Surjewala had posed 10 questions that inculcates the ruling party's links to the China Association for International Friendly Contact, and its interactions with the China's ruling party.

"What is the connection of the BJP to the Communist Party of China (CCP)? What is the historical relationship between BJP and CCP spoken about by the then BJP President, Shri Rajnath Singh during the visit of a CCP delegation on January 30th, 2007 and reiterated by him during the meeting with members of Politburo of the CCP on October 17th, 2008?" questioned Congress.

"Why did the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh ('RSS') go to China in January 2009 on an invite from the CCP? Why was a delegation of RSS invited by the CCP despite it not being a political party and what discussions were held on our sensitive state of Arunachal Pradesh as also Tibet?" it questioned.

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"Why did the then BJP President, Shri Nitin Gadkari go to China on a five-day visit on January 19th, 2011 at the invitation of the Communist Party of China ('CCP')?" it said.

The Congress party also questioned PM Modi's several visits to China and the relationship between the leaders of the two nation.

"Why did the then BJP President, Shri Amit Shah send a delegation of MP's/MLA's in November 2014 to China for a week-long study in "The Party School" of the Chinese Communist Party ('CCP')?" the Congress asked.

Congress also questioned BJP's ideological mentor, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh to declare its donors. "Will the BJP declare the name of donors from whom it has received thousands of crores in donations through electoral bonds?" the Congress said, along with other questions on funding of the party, the RSS and other associated organisations.

Earlier BJP had launched a blistering attack on the Gandhi clan, accusing them of impropriety in the transfer of Rs 20 lakh from the Prime Minister's Relief Fund to the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation (RGF) in 2005, during the Manmohan Singh government.

BJP's President JP Nadda released papers claiming it to be the proof that the Congress party had pushed for a regional trade agreement that was in favour of China, referring to this as "economic surrender" replying to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's "Surender" Modi jibe on Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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