New Delhi, Dec 13: Alleging political vendetta in the National Herald case, senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Saturday accused finance minister Arun Jaitley of indicating to Income Tax department issue of notice to his party in the case. He also rejected all charges of alleged cheating and siphoning off money by Congress in the matter.
“Your finance minister in his blogs and on Facebook says this is an offence under Income Tax Act. He is the finance minister of this country. Does he have the right to make statements like that? He is giving a sort of indication to the IT department that you send notice. And what has stopping of Parliament got to do with the case of National Herald. It is nothing to do with it,” Sibal said speaking at the “Aaj Tak Agenda” programme here.
Congress has been stalling Parliament for the past few days over the issue of “political vendetta”.
Sibal referred to comments made by revenue ministers of BJP-ruled Maharashtra and Haryana governments favouring cancellation of leases of properties of National Herald or its holding companies and asked “Is this not political vendetta?”
He said Congress is committed to reviving and running National Herald, a newspaper established in 1938 by Jawaharlal Nehru.
