Subramanian Swamy rewarded for initiating case against Sonia, Rahul : Congress
Speaking to media, Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said : "BJP has rewarded Subramanian Swamy for case against Congress leaders. The Congress party and the whole country had suspected this from the beginning itself," he said.
"The BJP and some union ministers are behind it. You must have read in the papers that how the government has gone out of the way to give Z category security to Subramanian Swamy."
"He is not a member of Parliament and neither is he in a border state where there is militancy/terrorism or that he may have killed any terrorist," Azad said.
"The government house that he has been allotted is a reward for filing the case against the Congress...Since they have come to power they are targeting Opposition parties," he alleged.
"Earlier their slogan was Congress Mukt Bharat. Now their agenda is Vipaksh Mukt Bharat...Congress didn't bow to the Britishers and fought and gained independence," Azad said.
Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, the mother-son duo, have been summoned by the trial court on a private criminal complaint of BJP leader Subramanian Swamy of cheating, criminal conspiracy, misappropriation of property and breach of trust on Saturday at 3pm. Swamy had filed the complaint in 2012.
Apart from Sonia Gandhi and Rahul, party treasurer Motilal Vora, Oscar Fernandes, Suman Dubey, and Sam Pitroda have been charged in the case.
Swamy alleges that properties worth Rs 5,000 crore belonging to the now-defunct newspaper were usurped by the Gandhis through fraudulent papers. He accused the Gandhis and others of conspiring to cheat and misappropriate funds by first loaning the money to AJL and then assigning the debt to YIL for Rs 50 lakh. Swamy alleged that Congress has written off the remaining Rs 89.5 crore.
National Herald newspaper was started by former prime minister Jawahar Lal Nehru in 1938 during the freedom struggle. It originally served as a mouthpiece of the Congress. Over the decades circulation and finances dropped, before it finally closed in 2008 with a debt of Rs 90 crore.
In 2014, the trial court asked Sonia and Rahul to appear in the case. On December 7, 2015, the high court dismissed their appeal and asked questions about the legality of the unsecured loan. They were also directed to appear before the trial court.
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