Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has accused the US State Department and “deep state” elements of working with a group of journalists and opposition leader Rahul Gandhi to try to destabilize India. .
The allegation is surprising as New Delhi and Washington have built strong ties over the past two decades and both countries have vowed to further develop ties despite some differences, Reuters reported.
According to international media, the ruling party said on Thursday that Gandhi’s Congress party used articles of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) to undermine Modi over his alleged ties to the Adani Group and the government. Focus only on intimacy.
According to foreign media reports, Adani Group chief Gautam Adani and seven others were indicted in the US last month for their involvement in a $265 million scheme to bribe Indian officials. has declared
According to the Reuters news agency, articles by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project also alleged that state-sponsored hackers in India used Israeli-made Pegasus spyware to target government critics, although the government previously denied both allegations. has denied.
According to foreign media, the BJP has earlier accused Gandhi, the OCCRP and 92-year-old billionaire George Soros of attacking Modi, citing a French media report that said O.C. The CRP was funded by the US Agency for International Development and other prominent statesmen such as George Soros.
BJP has said in a series of messages on social media platform X that the deep state’s clear objective was to destabilize India by targeting Prime Minister Modi and the US State Department has always been behind this objective. OCRP has served as a media tool to advance this important state objective.
