“If they don’t turn up, issue a warrant and send them to jail”, Swamy said in the book-lined study of his South Delhi residence, where case papers were scattered across his desk.
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Speaking outside Parliament on Tuesday, Sonia thundered: “Why should I be scared of anyone?”
He said that BJP is saying that Congress is opposing judiciary, but it fails to realise judiciary and people are too wise to fall to their “cheap gimmicks”. The Congress vice president termed the National Herald Case proceedings “political vendetta”.
The Goods and Services Tax Bill is on the list of government business in the Rajya Sabha during the week but the developments following court decision in National Herald case appear to have created hurdles for the government in getting Congress support for the long-pending bill.
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Friday reiterated that the central government was having a political vendetta against the Congress party and that it was coming out of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO). This is their way of doing politics. Due to which there is a huge protest taken place in the Parliament and the long pending GST bill is not been discussed in both, Lower and Upper house. “Congress is thinking that it is hurting Prime Minister Narendra Modi”.
Noting that the Criminal Court has taken cognizance of the offence, which has also been upheld by the High Court, the Minister said, “No one is above the law”.
Naidu accused the Congress of practicing “mobocracy” by bringing their legal battle to Parliament.
Whether or not there is merit in the case filed by BJP leader Subramanian Swami charging the Congress leaders with fraud and misappropriation of the assets of the National Herald newspaper is for the courts to decide.
“Congress is resorting to mobocracy, not democracy. There can’t be bigger example I can give to the nation”, she said citing her own example. “We all know what happened during the Emergency… lakhs went to prison, everyone knows the state of the judiciary then, ” he said.
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Congress says the timing of the court’s action has been influenced by politics, but Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) denies this. They appealed to the Delhi High Court, which this week quashed their plea seeking exemption from a personal appearance.
