BJP has now found itself embroiled in its own National Herald controversy after reports emerged that the saffron party had transferred party funds to a ‘for profit’ company, Shree Multimedia Vision Ltd (SMVL), which ran a newspaper, Mumbai Tarun Bharat.
A report by Economic Times on Thursday said that some prominent BJP leaders were either directors or stakeholders in the company.
According to the report, the current Maharashtra education minister, Vinod Tawde, after becoming minister, appointed the newspaper’s editor, Dilip Karambelkar, who’s also director of the company, as head of a state education body.
And if that was not enough, some other SMVL directors, current and past, also were found to have close associations with the BJP as donors and as those who fought elections under the party ticket.
This revelation prompted the opposition to mount attack on social media with twitter users even trending hashtag #TarunBharatScam.
The social media users have been mocking the BJP for its hypocrisy as the party recently dragged the Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi and the VP, Rahul Gandhi to court making similar allegations.
Here is what the social media users, particularly Congress supporters, have been saying on this subject;
BJP thus invested (it's not a loan as permissible) in a for profit company running from its own premises to earn profits. #TarunBharatScam
— Gaurav Pandhi गौरव पांधी (@GauravPandhi) February 25, 2016
Some of the illustrious directors of the for profit firm SMVL funded by BJP to publish a newspaper #TarunBharatScam pic.twitter.com/ALY5Oa3L9d
— Priyanka Chaturvedi (@priyankac19) February 25, 2016
How can the company continue when amount funded by the BJP remains unsettled for more than a decade? Where is that money? #TarunBharatScam
— Vinay Kumar Dokania (@VinayDokania) February 25, 2016
The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.#TarunBharatScam
— Aarif Bashir Paray (@AdvAarif) February 25, 2016
BJP has always accused Cong for corruptions. Does BJP have the courage to face its own corruptions? #TarunBharatScam
— S_ (@Lzii7) February 25, 2016
Reality !#TarunBharatScam pic.twitter.com/SAKv5mdbEn
— Salman Nizami (@SalmanNizami_) February 25, 2016
Modi Govt high on corruption, low on development.#TarunBharatScam
— Salman Nizami (@SalmanNizami_) February 25, 2016
BJP is a PoliticalParty but invested in
SMVL which is a profit making company?
But AsUsual ModiJi will Maintain Silence #TarunBharatScam— Sandeep Singh Rissam (@SandeepsRissam) February 25, 2016
@WithCongress & they dare to blame congress of National Herald where there is no hidden agenda of hvng profit #TarunBharatScam
— SIMA (@seemaadhikari) February 25, 2016