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Rahul steps up attack, says it’s 100 per cent vendetta

Congress vice-president says he has full faith in country’s judiciary.

New Delhi: The Congress, on the other hand, dismissed the government’s claim and insisted that the case filed by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy, in which Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party vice-chief Rahul Gandhi, were asked to appear in a Delhi court, was purely “political”.

Both Houses of Parliament continuted to see disruptions and uproar on Wednesday as Congress members shouted slogans and trooped in the Well. The BJP-led NDA plans to launch a massive campaign against the Congress once the Winter Session is over, to take the message to people across the country about the Opposition party’s efforts to “stall” key legislative steps in the Rajya Sabha, where the government does not have a majority.

“One hundred per cent political vendetta. Pure political vendetta coming out of PMO. It is their way of doing politics. Pure 100 per cent vendetta,” Mr Gandhi said on Wednesday outside Parliament. He rejected the charge that the Congress was using Parliament to threaten the judiciary, saying “it is the other way around”. Mr Gandhi also went on to add that he had full faith in the judiciary.

Claiming the Congress suffered from “Modi phobia”, minister of state for parliamentary affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said, “They (Congress) have Modi phobia... Anything happening on Earth is being linked to him. Even if their leaders catch a cold, they will blame it on Modi.”

Reacting to Mr Gandhi’s remarks, the minister said the National Herald case was purely a legal issue, and the Congress was “threatening the judiciary” by creating an uproar.
Parliamentary affairs minister M. Venkaiah Naidu said the Congress posed a “danger to democracy” as it was making Parliament “dysfunctional”.

Rejecting Mr Gandhi’s claim this was a case of “100 per cent vendetta coming out of the PMO”, Mr Naidu wondered if the Congress vice-president was attacking former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh because the case was filed when the UPA was in power. He said Mr Subramanian Swamy, the complainant in the case, was not a member of the saffron party when he had lodged it.

( Source : deccan chronicle )
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