Herald case: Modi Govt’s fully exposed: Congress

Congress on Tuesday claimed the “illegality” of the Narendra Modi Government and its “politically motivated prosecution stands fully exposed” after a court here refused to take cognisance of the Enforcement Directorate chargesheet in the National Herald money laundering case against Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and others.

In a statement, the Congress said the ED’s proceedings against Congress leadership — Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi — in the case have been found to be “completely illegal and mala fide” by the court. “The mala fide and illegality of the Modi government stand fully exposed. The court has ruled that the ED case is without jurisdiction; it has no FIR, without which there is no case. This politically motivated prosecution by the Modi government over the last decade of the principal opposition party stands exposed before the people of India,” the opposition party said. “No case of money laundering, no proceeds of crime and no movement of property; all baseless charges that have been a part of a political witch hunt, propaganda, reputation assassination and campaign which stands defeated today,” it said.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge reminded people that when false allegations were levelled to defame the National Herald, the party and its leaders, then too he had said that “if we didn’t fear the British, what are these BJP-RSS or Modi-Shah worth?”