Law now catching up with Cong: BJP

Taking on the Congress leadership for defending former Union minister P Chidambaram, arrested in INX media corruption case, the BJP on Thursday claimed that the law “is now catching up with the Congress.” While rejecting the opposition party’s claim that the ruling BJP was playing political vendetta against its senior leader, the BJP hit back saying the Congress is trying to “convert corruption into a revolution.”

Senior BJP leader and Environment, Forest and Climate Change and Minister of

Information and Broadcasting, Prakash Javadekar said the case in which the senior Congress leader has been arrested is a “scam of massive corruption” and by supporting him, the opposition party was displaying its “support for graft.” The minister said the “law is now catching up with the Congress” and its rule from 2004-14 was “synonymous with corruption.”

Mr Javadekar also rejected opposition party’s claim of political vendetta behind the action against Mr Chidambaram and said the investigation agencies and courts are doing their work.

“Looting the country was their (Congress) only mission and therefore law is now catching up. We don’t interfere in the works of the CBI or any probe agency. Law will take its own course, but now the Congress is united for protecting the corrupt. It is in support of corruption and this is on display,” said the Information and Broadcasting minister.

Echoing Mr Javadekar’s views, Minority Affairs minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi the Congress is trying to “convert corruption into a revolution” by coming out in support of Mr Chidambaram.

“The Congress is working with a negative mindset. They have converted corruption into a revolution. This is for the first time that corruption is becoming a revolution. Till now, revolution was against corruption, now revolution is being carried out in favour of corruption,” said Mr Naqvi.

Looting the country was their (Congress) only mission and therefore law is now catching up. We don’t interfere in the works of the CBI or any probe agency. Law will take its own course, but now the Congress is united for protecting the corrupt. It is in support of corruption and this is on display — PRAKASH JAVADEKAR