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The Congress connected Wednesday (October 22, 2025) criticised anti-corruption assemblage Lokpal aft it floated a tender to procure 7 luxurious BMW cars for its members.
Taking to X, elder Congress person and Rajya Sabha subordinate Abhishek Manu Singhvi said, “I chaired the Parliamentary Committee connected Lokpal. Dr. L.M. Singhvi archetypal conceived the thought of Lokpal successful the aboriginal 1960s. To spot this anti-corruption assemblage present ordering BMWs for its members is tragic irony — the guardians of integrity chasing luxury implicit legitimacy.”
Very fewer probes
In different post, helium stated: “8,703 complaints. Only 24 probes. 6 prosecution sanctions. And now, BMWs worthy ₹70 lakh each. If this is our anti-corruption watchdog, it’s much poodle than panther.”
According to the tender and the manufacturer’s website, the long-wheelbase sedan, with an on-road terms of astir ₹69.5 lakh per portion successful Delhi, is described arsenic the longest and astir spacious car successful the conception designed for outstanding comfortableness successful an highly luxurious cabin. The corporate outgo of the procurement is worthy astir ₹5 crore.
Questioning the determination successful a societal media post, erstwhile Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said: “Why walk nationalist wealth to get these cars? I anticipation that astatine slightest 1 oregon 2 members of the Lokpal person refused, oregon volition refuse, to judge these cars.”
Congress communications main Jairam Ramesh mounted a scathing onslaught and alleged that a mendacious communicative had been created against the Manmohan Singh authorities by Anna Hazare, Arvind Kejriwal, ‘India Against Corruption’, and the RSS but present the “reality of the Lokpal is earlier the people”.
“This is not Lokpal but shaukh [indulgence] pal oregon ‘shock’ pal,” Mr. Ramesh said successful a video station connected his X handle, adding: “The mindset is that ‘we are Lokpal, we are supra everything and not accountable’. What benignant of probe person they precisely done?”
