Who is George Soros and why has BJP linked Adani bribery charges to him and Sonia-Rahul Gandhi?
Live MintThe Bharatiya Janata Party has been attempting to counter Adani bribery allegations by linking Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi with US billionaire George Soros. On Monday, Union Parliamentary affairs minister Kiren Rijiju claimed that Congress veteran Sonia Gandhi's alleged connection with George Soros is a "serious" concern, urging all political parties, including the Congress, to unite against “anti-India forces”. Since the Adani-Hindenburg controversy in February this year, top BJP leaders have been targeting Soros, particularly after he said that Adani group's troubles would “significantly weaken Modi’s stranglehold on India’s federal government”. The BJP said on Sunday that Sonia Gandhi's chairmanship of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation led to a partnership with the George Soros Foundation, ‘displaying the influence of foreign funding on Indian organisations’.