A new viral post on social media alleged that Indian-origin US Rep Rohit “Ro” Khanna accepted tens of thousands of American dollars in campaign donations. The hefty amount is said to have poured in from investment firm Mura Holdings LLC, whose CEO is Monte Ahuja, aka the Californian Democratic politician’s father-in-law.

Khanna, who joined forces with Republican Rep Thomas Massie for an “unsanitised release” of Jeffrey Epstein files, has since broken silence on the issue. Commenting directly under the post shared by Right Angle News Network, the Indian-origin representative slammed the allegations mounting against his name.

“These are individual contributions from family members in my first races for Congress and we disclosed the employers. I do not take a dime of corporate money, pac money, or lobbyist money!” he wrote under the post on late Monday (US time).

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In a follow-up message, he confronted people “attacking” him for calling on for Epstein files to be released and Palestine be recognised as a state. “But I will hold my ground and continue to reject all special interest money,” he added.

Ro Khanna branded a hypocrite

Meanwhile, Right Angle News Network’s post accused Khanna for accepting donations “funneled through his Ritu Ahuja’s parents, Monte and Usha Ahuja, and their investment firm, Mura Holdings,” despite his longstanding stance against lobbyist funding in US politics.

Earlier this year, Rohit targeted anti-corruption measure by introducing the “Drain the Swamp Act,” taking a dig at Donald Trump’s own 2016 campaign slogan. “He campaigned on draining the swamp, and yet he gets in there and he says, no, lobbyists can give gifts to White House officials,” he said, as per the Guardian in April 2025. “What I’m saying is that we need to ban lobbyists from giving gifts to White House officials, not just this administration, but for all administrations going forward.”

A user took aim at Khanna for building his “railing against corporate cash” as his “whole brand,” while he’s “cashing checks laundered through his in-laws’ firm.” Yet another netizen dragged him for “pretending to fight billionaires while cashing family checks.”

The now-viral post sheds light on a screenshot of data filings listed on the official Federal Election Commission, detailing that Usha and Monte Ahuja made donations worth thousands of dollars per entry in 2014, 2016 and 2018.

Presenting a different stance, another user’s take on the issue aligned the Congressman’s clarification mentioned above: “No evidence of impropriety is indicated in the public data, as individual family donations are permissible under federal campaign finance laws, provided they adhere to contribution limits.”

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According to the official FEC website, “If an LLC is treated as a corporation, it is prohibited from making contributions to candidate committees, but it can establish an SSF. It may also give money to independent expenditure-only PACs. If it is considered a partnership, it is subject to the contribution limits for partnerships.”

Ro Khanna controversy builds up

Over the weekend in the US, Khanna’s constant critic ‘Citizen Journalist’ James Hartline even alleged that the Congressman’s children, who weren’t even teenagers yet, were “trading tens of millions of dollars worth of stock on the stock market.”

As per screenshots of stocks tied to the Democrat, Hartline wrote in another post, “Khanna’s children began trading millions of dollars in stock in 2022 when they were four and three years-old respectively. Rolit “Ro” Khanna votes on legislation in Congress that directly affects the companies that Khanna’s very young children have been trading on in the stock market.”

The Indian-American Congressman has yet to comment on controversy emerging on the stock scene.