Bengaluru, Oct. 26 -- Senior Congress leader V Hanumanth Rao on Sunday echoed Digvijaya Singh's explosive allegation that the BJP had received Rs 945 crore in electoral bonds from pharmaceutical companies.

Rao's remarks come amid growing outrage over the deaths of 26 children allegedly linked to the consumption of contaminated Coldrif cough syrup in Madhya Pradesh.

At a press conference in Bhopal yesterday former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijaya Singh accused the state's BJP government of shielding the pharmaceutical firms involved. He alleged that no strict action was taken against the companies "because they donate election funds to the BJP."

Supporting Singh's statement, V Hanumanth Rao condemned BJP's alleged inaction. "No a...