Opposition’s issues on GST can be easily addressed: Jaitley

“Not a single rupee can be taken out from the company by anyone”.

Both Congress President Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul along with five others have been ordered by the Patiala House Court to appear before it on December 19 in the National Herald case. The Congress’s aggressive stand has cast a shadow on the crucial goods and services tax (GST) bill that is awaiting Parliament’s approval this winter session.

“Absolutely incorrect. The Enforcement Directorate official was also serving as a Secretary”.

Coming out of Parliament on Wednesday, Rahul Gandhi said: “It’s 100% political vendetta coming out of the PM’s Office”.

“The House or government has nothing got to do with this (‘National Herald’ case) either directly or indirectly”.

A defiant Congress vice-president had yesterday charged the BJP with adopting vendetta politics and vowed to continue questioning the government.

No wonder, in a scenario where they have everything to lose, Rahul and Sonia Gandhi have gone to the extent of turning a legal battle into a political and parliamentary one.

Reacting to the court summons, Sonia Gandhi said “I am the daughter-in-law of Indira Gandhi (India’s first woman Prime Minister) and I am not afraid of anybody or anything”.

This is the way the central government works”, said Congress vicepresident Rahul Gandhi whose day job now seems to be the same as that of the old Janata Party leaders before they came to power and imploded: “To be manically fixated on the evils of the prime minister.

“Who does not know which party has been doing the politics of vendetta for the past so many years”.

Speaking during the Zero Hour, Congress group leader Mallikarjun Kharge said, “There are two laws in this country – one for the Opposition and another for the government”. In a veiled dig at earlier Congress governments, he said had people’s participation in development been made a policy after Independence, the pace of development would have been a thousand times more.

However, it remains to be seen if other parties would be willing to come on board on an issue that basically concerns Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. Pure political vendetta coming out of PMO.

When we raised the issue of corruption involving Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh chief ministers, no action was taken.

The trial court, giving relief to the Gandhis from personal appearance on Tuesday, asked them to appear before it on December 19.

Asserting that BJP has no connection to this case, Gadkari said it is ridiculous that the Congress was falsely accusing it.