Sam Pitroda Denies Foreign Funding Charge, BJP Recalls "Hua Toh Hua" Remark

Sam Pitroda, the Congress party's main man abroad, has dismissed allegations of foreign funding and overseas influence on the party as "bogus" and dared the BJP to show evidence instead of circulating photographs and making what he termed "manufactured claims".Pitroda came to his party's defence after the BJP alleged the Opposition forces have alleged ties to foreign entities and elements critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.He specifically rejected claims linking him and Congress MP Rahul Gandhi to billionaire investor George Soros, who has repeatedly figured in the BJP's allegations of foreign influence on the Opposition."How could you show a picture of Sam Pitroda or Rahul Gandhi with George Soros, whom we have never met? You show that photograph and then you send it to everybody, including my own family.

Shame on you," he said.Pitroda and the BJP also got into a fight over the 1984 anti-Sikh riots following the release of Sonia Gandhi's memoir yesterday."It is all bogus, lies. Nobody has ever given any money.