The Congress on Tuesday said the allegations levelled by the BJP against former Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram of favouring select private traders through 80:20 gold import scheme were “false” and “baseless”.
Addressing mediapersons outside Parliament, senior Congress leader Anand Sharma said the Narendra Modi Government was even “manufacturing documents” to tarnish the image of its political opponents as a “diversionary tactic to avoid focus from around Rs 27,000 crore fraud by Nirav Modi, Mehul Choksi and Jatin Mehta”.
He said that “no files were signed” on May 16, 2014, as alleged by Union law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.
Sharma emphasised that firstly the Exim policy is not the Finance Minister’s prerogative alone, and secondly that no policy decisions could be taken when the Model Code of Conduct was still in place.