NEW DELHI: BJP on Sunday asked Congress to give account of “loot by its leaders” in the National Herald case instead of levelling baseless allegations against the govt after Delhi Police filed an FIR against Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi along with their six other associates and business entities in the matter on an array of criminal charges.Also read: Herald case is Modi-Shah’s political vendetta, says CongBJP’s Ravi Shankar Prasad rejected Congress’s allegation of political vendetta and said the case predates Modi govt. “The nation should know that Young Indian in which Sonia and Rahul own 38% share each, acquired assets worth thousands of crores belonging to AJL, which was held by Congress and owned by National Herald, with only Rs 50 lakh.”
“It is clearly a case of loot. The law is taking its course, and Congress should let it,” he said, underlining Congress pleas in HC and SC to get proceedings against its members quashed were rejected and the judiciary asked them to face trial. On the FIR, he said Sonia & Rahul have been slapped with charges of criminal conspiracy and cheating. ED probed the charges, reached a conclusion and now asked police to lodge an FIR.
