BJP launches first episode of 'Congress Files' to expose party's corruption

Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) launched another fresh round of attacks against Congress on Sunday by releasing the first episode of 'Congress Files' with the aim to expose the party's corruption.

BJP through its official Twitter handle tweeted that "The first episode of the Congress Files, see how one after the other corruption and scams took place under the Congress rule."

The video message is titled "Congress means corruption", the BJP stated, "Congress has looted Rs 48,20,69,00,00,000 from public in 70 years of its rule. That money could have been utilised for so many useful areas of security and development."

"Using this much amount, 24 INS Vikrant, 300 Rafale jets, and 1000 Mangal Missions could have been made of purchased. But the country has to bear the cost of Congress' corruption, and it lagged behind in the race of progress," the video message added.

It also termed the Congress tenure from 2004-2014 as a "Lost Decade".

"Keeping the whole 70 years aside, if we only look at the last tenure of 2004-14, it was a 'Lost Decade'. The government was led by Manmohan Singh, who turned a blind eye to all the corruption that kept on happening under his rule. In those days, paper were filed with the new of corruption, looking at which the heads of every Indian hung in shame," it further added.

"Coal scam of Rs 1.86 lakh crore, 2G Spectrum scam of Rs 1.76 lakh crore, MNREGA scam of Rs 10 lakh crore, Commonwealth scam of Rs 70,000 crore," it further added.

Towards the end of the video it was also mentioned that this was only the trailer of Congress's corruption, the movie is still not over.