‘E20 is a massive scam’: Rahul Gandhi alleges corruption and vehicle damages
New Delhi: Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi said that the corruption in the E20 is a big issue. He observed that while the corruption in E20 has already been taken up, it has already destroyed people vehicles.
Sharing a video message on his X handle, the senior Congress leader said that there is so much corruption in the country nowadays that there are lines of sequences.
This E20 issue is very big: Rahul Gandhi
“This E20 issue is very big . Normally we say that some of the lentil is black, but here entire lentil is black. Brothers and sisters, this is a matter of sequencing. In any campaign, we have to decide the sequence of affairs,” Rahul Gandhi said in the video.
He added, “Our problem right now is that there is so much corruption that there is a huge line in what we have to sequence. This issue we have to take in a massive way. Because this is destroying people’s cars, destroying people’s scooters and literally stealing directly from them”.
E20 – दाल में काला नहीं, पूरी दाल ही काली है। pic.twitter.com/Unw7UfNt9k
— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) August 7, 2026
Cong continues to attack Govt on R20 rollout
In recent times, the Congress continued to attack the government on E20 fuel rollout. On Thursday, the main Opposition party had said that the motive behind the step was not environmental. Congress leader Jairam Ramesh had observed that the Centre was looking for the rollout of E20 fuel hurriedly as a step towards cleaner energy and lower oil imports; however, its ecological effect must account for E20’s impact on water as well as food security.
“The stress water-intensive crops place on our resources is alarming: Sugarcane and paddy together consume nearly 70 per cent of India’s irrigation water. One litre of sugarcane-based ethanol requires around 3,630 litres of water. One litre of rice-based ethanol can consume up to 10,790 litres of water,” he said as per news agency PTI.
He added, “The Modi government in fact subsidises the use of rice for ethanol production — it recently admitted in Parliament that it supplies rice to ethanol distilleries at nearly 40 per cent below its average procurement cost.”