Not a single rupee taken out of National Herald: Rahul Gandhi

On Tuesday, a New Delhi court asked Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi to appear before it in a case alleging a scam of over Rs 1,500 cr involving the assets of the now defunct National Herald case.

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

Retaliating to the government’s claims regarding National Herald case, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi dared the government to do what they want and claimed he wouldn’t back off even an inch. Calling the case an example of a political vendetta at its worst, he said: “The ruling party in power is using proxy litigation to attack senior Congress persons out of political malice”.

Abhishek Manu Singhvi, a Congress spokesman and lawyer for the Gandhis, said they were willing to appear in court, but sought more time.

Jaitley challenged the Congress to have a debate in the National Herald case in Parliament. “The kind of comments Rahulji is making, the only message nation is getting is that if country’s law and judiciary don’t kneel before Gandhi family the Parliament will not be allowed to work”, she alleged.

Naidu said, “Congress is thinking that it is hurting Prime Minister Narendra Modi”. We appeal to them not to take revenge of this mandate from the people of the nation, ‘ Naqvi told ANI.

Minister of State of Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi charged the Congress with politicising the National Herald case.

Speaking outside the Parliament on Wednesday, Rahul Gandhi said: “It’s 100% political vendetta coming out of the PM’s Office. There can’t be bigger example I can give to the nation”, she said citing her own example.

Meanwhile, Congress members forced repeated adjournments in both Houses of Parliament by shouting slogans against the Government. But the two sides were at loggerheads again on Monday after a judge ordered Gandhi and her son Rahul to appear in court in a case brought by a prominent member of Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party.

“The transactions of the Congress with AJL via YIL are not mere commercial transactions, as these transactions legitimately attract the allegations of cheating, fraud, breach of trust, misappropriation, etc”. “They are raising all these issues only to delay GST and other important bills”, Jaitley said.