Sonia attacks govt over charges against Vadra, calls Modi ''Shehanshah''

Raebareli, May 31

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday hit back at the government on the charges against her son-in-law Robert Vadra saying it was part of a conspiracy of levelling false allegations in its bid for a “Congress-free” India.

She dared the government to order an impartial probe if there is something in which, she said, the truth would come out.

On a visit to her parliamentary constituency, Gandhi was asked by mediapersons on reports citing a probe by the Income Tax department into transactions of an arms dealer and his links with Vadra, especially with regard to ownership of a house in central London.

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“This is a conspiracy for a Congress-free country. What is the meaning of a Congress-free India? Every day they make new excuses. They level false charges. If there is something, then there should be an impartial probe. Everything will become clear,” she said.

News reports on Tuesday quoted from purported papers seized by the I-T department during searches last month on the arms dealer’s premises that allegedly led to a trail of emails between Vadra and his assistant on the one hand and the dealer’s aide on the other regarding the purchase of a London house for approximately Rs 19 crore in 2009 which was subsequently said to have been sold.

Vadra’s legal firm has denied that he owned the London property directly or indirectly. It also denied that Vadra had any business ties with Bhandari or his aide.

Sonia attacked the government over the celebrations of two years of the NDA government and described Prime Minister Narendra Modi as “Shahenshah” (emperor).

“I have never seen anything like this. A Prime Minister is there, not an emperor. He is the country’s Prime Minister. There is so much poverty in the country. There is drought. Farmers are in trouble. I do not find it appropriate (that government) shows off like this,” she told reporters here.

Gandhi said Modi’s ministers had given him “this stature” and were busy in holding celebrations.