P Chidambaram and Kapil Sibal were among the legal experts of the party at the meeting which was also attended by some of the Congress general secretaries.
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Rahul said the government at the Centre thought it could stop him from asking questions “about them” by adopting such “vendetta politics”, but “that is not going to happen”.
Instead of hampering the Parliament, Congress should allow a debate in the House and “we will tell what they have done”, he said, adding, Rahul Gandhi is not able to accept a duly elected government and prime minister.
He said Congress leaders were ready to appear before the trial court as desired.
Congress party chief Sonia Gandhi (L) listens to her son and lawmaker Rahul Gandhi (R), at her husband and former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s memorial, on the occasion of his 23rd death anniversary, in New Delhi May 21, 2014. After a hearing, the High Court dismisses it. Now you either go to trial court or you challenge it in Supreme Court. Where he wrote without naming Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, that the Congress leaders created a ‘Chakravyuh for themselves through the series of financial transaction and tax exemption which was transferred to a real estate company.
“Let them do what they want. I am not scared of anyone”, she said.
Speaking to reporters in Tamil Nadu’s Cuddalore district about the National Herald case, Rahul, who is undertaking a tour to Tamil Nadu’s flood-hit areas, said he sees an absolute political vendetta by the BJP-led central government.
The Congress high command seems to have changed its strategy pertaining to National Herald case.
Mohali: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday accused the Congress Party of disrupting the parliamentary proceedings for its “personal freedom and interest” and dared the opposition for a debate on the National Herald case. “Who is threatening judiciary we all know”. “As a person from the court, I would feel that it is better if the courts are kept aloof and the judicial orders are not dragged into any political controversy”, Memon told ANI. “They are raising all these issues only to delay GST and other important bills”, Jaitley said. The case has been delayed numerous times, and the Gandhis failed to appear in court on December 7.
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Kharge alleged that the rules for the opposition and the ruling party were not equal.
