New Delhi: The BJP on Friday dismissed Congress leader K Venugopal’s allegations against Home Minister Amit Shah on FCRA as “baseless and politically motivated”.
The ruling party asserted that the Narendra Modi government functions on “high-accountability’ and nation-first’ principles”, not on the erstwhile UPA government’s “low-trust policy”.
This came after Venugopal attacked the BJP and Shah, alleging that the Modi government has been hell-bent on using the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act (FCRA) to “harass vocal civil society organisations and minority-run institutions and take over their properties”.
In a post on X, the Congress general secretary said, “In typical BJP fashion, HM Amit Shah has lied to the CBCI about FCRA and is wrongly deflecting blame to hide his government’s culpability in weaponising the FCRA laws,” Venugopal said on X.
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) on Friday urged Home Minister Shah to withdraw the FCRA Bill, 2026, and the recently notified Rules, stressing that both be redrafted after wider consultation with stakeholders.
Hitting back at the Congress general secretary, BJP national spokesperson Sambit Patra said in a post on X, “Mr KC Venugopal, it seems that the entire Congress party has gotten into the habit of serving up lies and everyone in the party has been assigned the responsibility of spreading different lies.”
The confusion being spread by the opposition and “some vested interests” regarding the amendments to the FCRA is “completely baseless and politically motivated”, the BJP MP said.
“Mr Venugopal, all the allegations you have made are not only unfounded but also laughable. This bill is going to come to the House anyway. There will be discussion there too. Truth will come out,” Patra said.
He added that the Modi government does not operate on the “low-trust policy” of the erstwhile Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government but on “high-accountability and nation-first principles”.
