Congress president Sonia Gandhi trapped after tweeting on PM care, FIR lodged in Karnataka

New delhi date. May 21, 2020, Thursday

The Corona virus has engulfed the country on the one hand and a political battle between the BJP and the Congress on the other. Opposition is attacking the Modi government over the PM Care Fund created for the Koro crisis.

An FIR has been lodged in Karnataka following a complaint against Congress president Sonia Gandhi over a tweet about PM Care. A BJP activist and lawyer named Praveen Kevi has alleged in the FIR that misleading information was being spread on social media by the Congress party.

The FIR was lodged on May 11 by the Congress party following allegations leveled by the central government against the PM Care Fund. Karnataka Police has registered an FIR against Congress president Sonia Gandhi under sections 153 and 505 of the IPC. The FIR has appealed that legal action should be taken against Sonia Gandhi.

Lack of transparency in rules and expenditure in PM Care Fund: Shashi Tharoor
Earlier, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor had questioned why there was a need to set up a separate trust when the Prime Minister had already contributed Rs 3,800 crore to the national relief fund. Alleging a lack of transparency in the rules and expenditure of the trust, he said that instead of creating a separate public charitable trust, Narendra Modi should have changed the name of the PM National Relief Fund. PM-Care could be kept directly by renaming the Prime Minister's National Relief Fund or PMNRF, given the Prime Minister's special interest in attractive vocabulary. But a new trust has been started whose terms and costs have not been clarified.