Welcoming the Delhi High Court’s refusal to stay income tax proceedings against Young Indian Private limited involving Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, the BJP on Friday maintained that the case had raised important issue of propriety and suggested that former cooperated with the income tax authorities.
Addressing a press conference here senior BJP leader and Union law Minister Ravishankar Prasad Referred to the allegations against Congress leaders and alleged that the National Herald, a Congress-run newspaper, had become a sort of “family concern”, something which had never happened during Jawaharlal Nehru’s time.
The company, Young Indian Pvt ltd, had approached the Delhi High Court seeking a direction to stay the Income Tax proceedings and quashing of re-assessment notices issued against it with regard to the National Herald misappropriation of assets case.
The Minister said It would be in Sonia and Rahul’s interest if they cooperated with income tax authorities’ in the probe.
“Their (Sonia and Rahul) lawyer says they will move the Supreme Court. They can do as they wish but they must remember that this involves a serious ethical and moral issue. There is an important question of propriety. Democracy runs on public morality,” he said.
The BJP Minister said all the ‘Mahanayaks’ of the so called ‘grand alliance’, including lalu Prasad Yadav, are in one or other way involved in the incidents of corruption. He said brushing the corruption under the carpet would not help them.
“They have not leant no lessons from their election defeats”, said Prasad and went on to assert that People have faith in the Modi Government because they believe it is running honestly and with probity, he said.