Rae Bareli/New Delhi: The Congress and BJP were on Tuesday engaged in a political slugfest over charges that Robert Vadra may have bought a benami property in London with his mother-in-law and Congress President Sonia Gandhi attacking the government and dismissing the charges as “false”.
Perhaps coming out in open defence of her son-in-law for the first time, she also dared the government to order an impartial probe if there is something so that truth will come out.
The BJP hit back at Gandhi saying her defence of Vadra has exposed the “farce” that he was merely a private person and mocked her demand for a probe saying the party has earlier dubbed such inquiries as vendetta.
Speaking to reporters in Raebareli, the Congress President said: "I have never seen anything like this. A Prime Minister is there, not an emperor. He is the country's Prime Minister not a Shahanshah.”
Union Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh retorted, “The daughter-in-law of a big family is not a maharani (queen), a news channel reported.
Meanwhile, Congress spokesperson Poona Shehzad Poonawalla wrote to CBI and Enforcement Directorate demanding a probe into the alleged links between a BJP leader Siddarth Nath Singh and an alleged arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari.
Bhandari is said to have facilitated the purchase of the London property for Vadra. Poonawalla claimed call data records of Bhandari showed that Singh had made 450 calls to Bhandari.
