Bengaluru: Former Congress social media head and MP Divya Spandana has fired a political salvo after Union ministers Jitendra Singh and Ravi Shankar Prasad tweeted over Tuesday’s Supreme Court ruling on the PM CARES Fund.
The top court had ruled that money from the new fund set up to combat the Covid-19 pandemic need not be transferred to the National Disaster Response Fund, to which Singh, the Union Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office, had said: “Hope that should send out a message…loud and clear.”
Later in the day, Spandana also responded to Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, who had slammed the critics of the PM CARES Fund, including former Congress president Rahul Gandhi. Spandana pointed out that the Supreme Court didn’t say the government can’t transfer funds, it said it can if it wants to.
“You are choosing not to. If the Govt has nothing to hide, in the interest of transparency, why won’t you do it? It’s public contribution & we have the right to know,” she tweeted.
