Oppn's bid to pressure probe agencies: BJP

Shimla, June 13

Congress leaders out on bail are asking party workers to throng Delhi and hold protests to pressure investigating agencies to protect them, said BJP state president Suresh Kashyap here today.

Congress trying to protect the corrupt: Kashyap

The BJP condemns the Congress’ call to its workers to throng Delhi and hold protests against the ED purportedly to protect corrupt leaders. — Suresh Kashyap, BJP President

Kashyap, while addressing mediapersons here, posed a question to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi whether assets worth Rs 2,000 crore of Associated Journal Limited (AJL), a company formed to publish newspapers in 1930s with the participation of 5,000 freedom fighters, were not handed over to one family through Young Indian Private Ltd?

“Is Young Indian Private Ltd formed in 2010 with a capital of Rs 5 lakh not owned by Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi, who have 76 per cent share in it. And is this company not doing real estate business under the Gandhi family?’ he said.

He said that what was the relationship between Young Indian Ltd and Dotex Merchandise, a Kolkata-based company allegedly involved in hawala transactions? He added, “Rs 90 crore received by the Congress in the form of donations from the public was given as loan to the AJL and later waived for Young Indian Ltd, which had taken over the loan. In 2010, Young Indian Ltd was formed as a charitable company but no charitable work was done till 2016. Instead the company engaged in real estate business.

Kashyap said that in 2019, the Delhi High Court, terming the share transactions between the AJL and Young Indian Ltd as sham, stated: “The entire transaction of transferring the shares of the AJL to Young Indian Ltd was nothing but a clandestine and surreptitious transfer of the lucrative interest to Young Indian”.