"Congress and BJP get huge funding from the sources who have got ill-gotten money. Almost 80 per cent of their funding comes from ill-gotten wealth or foreign funds, which is in utter violation of the law," AAP spokesman Manish Sisodia alleged at a public meeting in Goa today.
While on the one hand both the parties run on this kind of money and on the other hand, the Union Home Ministry "misinforms" the high court that AAP does not disclose their funding, he charged.
The AAP leader was here to campaign for Dattaram Desai and Swati Kerkar fielded by his party in North and South Goa constituencies respectively.
The Delhi High Court had on Friday asked the Centre and the Election Commission to take appropriate action against Congress and BJP for allegedly accepting foreign funds in violation of the law.
"When we tell the Home Ministry that we don't receive any foreign funding, it goes to the high court and misinforms the judges that we are not disclosing our funding," Sisodia claimed at a meeting at historic Azad Maidan in Panaji.
"There is no parallel between the two leaders. Has Parrikar done anything to get the Jan Lokpal bill? Has he done anything to recover Rs 35,000 crore loot of the mining industry? Has he put any illegal miner in jail?" Sisodia said and added the Goa chief minister's claims about austerity measures were also "fake".
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