The Congress on Saturday said it seemed as if only the BJP and its coalition partners were clean and all others tainted.
Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal said raids carried out by investigative agencies like CBI and ED have only targeted Opposition leaders.
But he deflected a question on the investigating agency raiding RJD chief lalu Prasad and his family members, saying he did not have the details. “As far as raids and allegations are concerned, I can’t say till I have complete information about them. But I want to ask one small question for this Government,” the former Union Minister said, a day after the searches.
“There are many Opposition leaders and Opposition Governments in India and there is not a single such State and leader where the CBI has not raided and the ED not sent its notices. Whereever there are the ruling party Governments, be it at the Centre or States, the CBI has not raided anywhere. So it seems the BJP people and their coalition partners only are clean and we all are tainted. We will feel good if the Government gives an answer to this question,” he added
Sibal also asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to make a statement on why India was “eyeball to eyeball” with China after swinging with President Xi Jinping in Sabarmati.
He said the situation on the border with China “was very serious” and the Government must spell out its policy on how to defuse the tension. “These are very sensitive and very serious issues. Who is in power - the present BJP is in power. It is for that Government to tell us what they wish to do; we only know that from the ‘jhoola’ at Sabarmati to the present situation there is a big gap - from swinging to being eyeball to eyeball,” he said.
“Now it is for the prime minister to make a statement which he has not made so far as to why this has happened and what the country needs to do,” Sibal said.
On GST, he said it was ‘goodbye to simple tax’ and not a ‘good and simple tax’ as described by the prime minister. He said it was good for the government and bad for the common man. The advent of the GST had hit business hard, and small and medium traders across the country were facing harassment, he alleged.