The OCCRP articles additionally accused state-sponsored hackers in India of utilizing Israeli-made Pegasus spyware and adware to focus on authorities critics.
The authorities has beforehand denied each accusations.
The BJP has beforehand accused Gandhi, OCCRP and 92-year-old billionaire financier-philanthropist George Soros of attacking Modi.
On Thursday he cited a French media report that the OCCRP was funded by the US Agency for International Development and “different deep state figures” equivalent to Soros.
“The Deep State had a transparent goal to destabilize India by focusing on Prime Minister Modi,” the BJP mentioned in a sequence of messages on X.
“It has at all times been the U.S. State Department behind this agenda… The OCCRP has served as a media instrument to advance the agenda of the Deep State,” he mentioned.
Sambit Patra, BJP’s nationwide spokesperson and MP, repeated the allegations throughout an official social gathering press convention on Thursday.
“A French investigative media group…revealed that…50% of OCCRP funding comes immediately from the U.S. State Department,” Patra mentioned.
“OCCRP served as a media instrument to advance the Deep State agenda.”
The State Department, US AID, Soros and the Congressional social gathering didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark. India’s Foreign Ministry additionally didn’t reply to a request for touch upon the ruling social gathering’s allegation in opposition to the State Department.
OCCRP mentioned in a press release that it’s an unbiased media outlet and never related to any political social gathering.
“The U.S. authorities, whereas offering funding to OCCRP, has no say in our editorial processes and has no management over our reporting,” he mentioned.
The authorities has lately confronted controversy over the US prosecution of Gautam Adani, who opposition leaders say Modi has at all times protected, and the nation’s parliament was suspended a number of occasions final week as opposition lawmakers they requested for a dialogue on the problem.
Modi’s BJP and Adani have denied the allegations.
