'Not Gandhi family's birthright that probe agencies cannot summon its members'

The BJP alleged on Thursday that the Gandhi family was the most corrupt family in the world and said it was not the birthright of its members that probe agencies cannot summon them in accordance with law in a case of corruptionBJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia launched a sharp counterattack on the Congress leadership a day after the opposition party accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of cowardly conspiracy against its president Sonia Gandhi and her MP son Rahul Gandhi following the Enforcement Directorates summons to them for questioning in the National Herald caseCongress had said that it will not be cowed down by such vendetta politics and will fight hard legally socially and politicallyHitting back Bhatia 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 groundNobody be it Sonia Gandhi or Rahul is above the law and it will apply equally to everyone he said at a press conferenceSlamming the Congress for its attack on central probe agencies accused by the opposition party of acting at the behest of the ruling BJP Bhatia noted 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 he claimedThe Congress should tell the country that both Sonia Gandhi and Rahul are on bail in a case of corruption National Herald case the BJP spokesperson said adding that Sonia Gandhis soninlaw Robert Vadra had also received an anticipatory bail in a case of alleged graft against him involving land dealsIf there is one most corruption 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 saidThe Delhi High Court in 2015 had rejected Gandhis plea to quash proceedings against them in the case and the Supreme Court also refused to interfere with the decision he saidThe ED had summoned Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi for questioning in a money laundering case linked to the National Herald newspaperWhile Sonia Gandhi 75 has been asked to depose before the federal agency at its headquarters in central Delhi on June 8 Rahul Gandhi has been asked to appear on Thursday June 2 Rahul Gandhi has written to the probe agency to postpone the date to after June 5 as he is not in the countryCiting the details of the case Bhatia alleged that the Young Indian company with the two members of the Gandhi family having 76 per cent stake was incorporated with the sole aim to capture the assets worth over Rs 2000 crore of Associated Journals of India which publishes the National Herald newspaper linked to the CongressThis 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