Trashing the vendetta charges from the Congress, the BJP on Thursday said it was not the birthright of the Gandhi family that probe agencies cannot summon them in accordance with law in a case of corruption.
In the backdrop of Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) summons to Congress President Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul on June 8, BJP’s national spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia alleged that the Gandhi family was the "most corrupt" family in the world.
He said "corrupt" people will have to be scared and bow before the law and rejected the charge of political vendetta noting that neither any high court nor the Supreme Court has ever quashed any proceedings in a case of corruption on such a ground.
He said it was not the birthright of its members that probe agencies cannot summon them in accordance with law in a case of corruption.
A day before Congress accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of "cowardly conspiracy" against its president and member of parliament Rahul following the ED’s summons to them for questioning in the National Herald case. In a riposte Bhatia said nobody be it Sonia or Rahul is above the law, and it will apply equally to everyone, he said addressing a press conference here.
Lashing out at the Congress for its attack on central probe agencies , Bhatia recalled that investigation agency heads were summoned by the previous Congress government and their reports changed. They are now independent and act in an unbiased manner, the BJP spokesperson sought to say. Bhatia said that Sonia’s son-in-law Robert Vadra had also received an anticipatory bail in a case of alleged graft against him involving land deals.
"If there is one most corrupt family not only in India but in the world, then it is the Gandhi family," he alleged, adding that people used to look at the family with trust but they tried to loot the country. No court has quashed any proceedings against them, he said.