NEW DELHI: BJP on Sunday accused former Congress president Sonia Gandhi of having ties to an organization funded by the George Soros Foundation.
The ruling party outlined its claims in a series of posts on X, asserting that Sonia Gandhi, as the co-president of the Forum of the Democratic Leaders in Asia Pacific (FDL-AP) Foundation, is linked to an organisation financed by the George Soros Foundation.
The BJP said that this group has previously supported the idea of Kashmir as an independent nation, raising concerns about foreign influence on India’s domestic affairs.
“Notably, the FDL-AP Foundation has expressed views treating Kashmir as a separate entity,” one of the posts said.
The BJP also shared a photo of Salil Shetty, the vice president of the Soros-funded Open Society Foundation with Rahul Gandhi during the Bharat Jodo Yatra to back their statement.
The party also referenced Congress MP Shashi Tharoor’s acknowledgment of Soros as a “old friend” to underline what it called was a dangerous relationship.
BJP MP Nishikant Dubey vowed to question Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in the Lok Sabha over what he described as “collusion” between opposition leaders, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), and Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros. “The objective of this collusion is to ruin India’s economy and tarnish the Modi government’s image,” Dubey alleged.
Dubey cited the Congress’s alleged reliance on OCCRP reports to target the Adani Group, claiming that Rahul Gandhi’s press conferences criticising the industrialist were amplified by platforms linked to Soros.
Soros was at the centre of noisy exchanges between BJP and Congress earlier in Parliament, with the former alleging that the 94-year-old was acting in collusion with the opposition in India to undermine the Modi government.
Congress members in both Houses had protested against BJP’s attack. “Agents of Adani have been given only one task – to defame and abuse those who expose their mega corruption. We do not tolerate the objectionable words used against LOP Rahul Gandhi, Wayanad MP Priyanka Gandhi and the Congress party by Adani Agent Nishikant Dubey on the floor of the House,” AICC general secretary K C Venugopal said.
OCCRP, headquartered in Amsterdam, focuses on investigative stories related to corruption and crime. Recently, the platform has drawn attention for reports implicating the Adani Group in alleged financial misconduct, which the opposition Congress has used to press for a Joint Parliamentary Committee probe. The Adani Group has dismissed the allegations as baseless, while the BJP has accused Congress of attempting to shield its links with foreign interests.