Congress' protest against corruption probe shows its decline: BJP

Accusing the Congress of resorting to violent protests to hide its corruption the BJP on Wednesday said the opposition partys stir shows its progressive decline and claimed that covering up the Gandhi familys alleged graft is the true satya of its satyagrahaBJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi invoked Mahatma Gandhis decision to calloff the Congresss noncooperation movement due to violence and claimed that the partys violent protests now for opposing the probe in a case of corruption shows how small the party has becomeAddressing a press conference Trivedi noted that Rahul Gandhi who is being questioned by the ED in the National Herald case is neither his partys president nor the leader of the opposition as he questioned the Congresss show of strength for him The Congress has now become solely a family party he claimedThe BJPs attack on the Congress came as Rahul Gandhi appeared before the Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday for the third consecutive day of questioning in the National Herald moneylaundering case with the agency seeking answers on decisions taken with regard to the media organisation and its owner Young IndianAlso Read National Herald case Congress protest march in support of corruption says Union minister Smriti IraniCongress leaders and workers staged protests outside the ED office and the party headquarters here and were detained by policeBoth chief ministers of the party Ashok Gehlot of Rajasthan and Bhupesh Baghel of Chhattisgarh and most of its MPs are in the national capital as part of theCongress protests against the EDs summons to Rahul Gandhi he observedAre the two chief ministers not betraying the mandate given to them by their states by camping in the national capital he askedViolence that the Congress is resorting to cover up the blatant corruption of their leadership is exposing the true satya of their socalled satyagraha he said on the protests by the CongressThere are reports of Congress workers engaging in arson and violence in different parts of the country he saidTaking a swipe at the opposition party over the allegation that the Gandhi family grabbed assets of Associated Journals Limited which publishes National Herald through Young Indian the BJP spokesperson said it was a strange case in which the leadership of a party has engaged in corruption by allegedly capturing assets linked to their own organisation National herald has been associated with CongressTrivedi noted that the probe in the National Herald case was ordered by the Delhi High Court and dated to the time when the Congressled UPA was in powerThe Congress is a party whose two prime ministers dedicated Bharat Ratna Indias highest civilian award to themselves he said alleging that its leadership has now dedicated assets of a partylinked organisation to themselvesTo a question about Maharashtra Congress leader Sheikh Hussains derogatory reference to Prime Minister Narendra Modi Trivedi said such hateful comments highlight the low and shallowness to which the Congress mindset has fallen He recalled that Congress president Sonia Gandhi had used maut ka saudagar merchant of death at ModiThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever