Priyanka Gandhi questions BJP on new Telecom Bill, says ‘scam worth thousands of crores…’

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Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra questioned the central government over the new Telecom Bill recently passed in the Parliament, alleging a "scam worth thousands of in the allocation of satellite broadband spectrum.C)..

Priyanka Gandhi, in a post on X (formerly Twitter), posed multiple questions for the BJP-led Centre on the Telecom Bill, which was passed when 143 opposition MPs were suspended from the Parliament..

In her X post, Priyanka Gandhi alleged that the Modi government violated the rules and guidelines put in place by the Supreme Court in 2021 by passing the Telecom Bill..

Explaining the chronology of events behind the Telecom Bill, Gandhi said that after 150 crore were donated to BJP via electoral bonds, 143 opposition MPs were dismissed from the Parliament and the New Telecom Bill was passed..

The manner in which the judicial system is being pressured by getting letters written after seeing the layers of scams being exposed by a decision of the Supreme Court on electoral bonds (which the public is calling 'extortion racket'), and then the prime minister himself entering the arena and making negative comments on the judiciary, shows that there is something fishy, she wrote on X...

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