Congress' allegations over lalit wild: BJP

Blaming the Congress for the washout of the Monsoon session of Parliament, the BJP on Friday said the allegations levelled by Congress over lalit Modi row and other issues were wild charges without any substance."Allegations are of two types - wild allegations and substantive allegations. Besides, the charges should have been pointed out either by a constitutional authority, investigative agency or by a court," BJP spokesman Sudhanshu Trivedi said.

While talking to media persons, he said, "In the case of 2G, Commonwealth Games scam, and Coalgate, which the BJP had raised during UPA-II regime, all allegations were levelled after they were pointed out by the three agencies."But the charges levelled by the Congress, which is its right being in Opposition, are not pointed out by any of the three agencies, he said.

The allegations levelled against External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, to which she had already given a sound reply in the lok Sabha, has no basis as she had extended help to tainted former IPl chief lalit Modi's ailing wife on humanitarian grounds, Trivedi said. Similarly, when the Opposition wanted to raise issues related to Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje and MP Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan in the Vyapam scandal, the BJP responded by raising issues of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, both Congress ruled States, but the Congress backtracked on the issue, he claimed.

 Trivedi further said when the Opposition finally agreed for a discussion in the House, it insisted on reply by the Prime Minister, despite the fact that charges were levelled against Swaraj and she had responded to them in a sound manner.Besides, the Congress had no answers on the issues raised by Swaraj in the matter of Bofors and Union Carbide's Warren Anderson.