The Congress party on Tuesday said it has full faith in the judiciary as far as delivering judgment on the National Herald case is concerned and accused the NDA-led central government of not taking any action against its corrupt leaders, and instead, opting to target the grand old party.
"There are huge numbers of corruption cases against the chief ministers of the Bharatiya Janata Party but no action is being taken or FIR has been lodged. As far this case is concerned, this has nothing to do with corruption," Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad told media here.
"We have not said anything against the court and we trust and believe and we have full faith in our judiciary. I have said in the house today that in all of these cases, there is a political vendetta against all political parties and this (National Herald case) is part of that," Azad added.
Azad's response came after both houses of Parliament saw repeated adjournments following a ruckus by Congress MPs over the National Herald case.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party vice president Rahul Gandhi have been asked to appear in a Delhi Court on December 19 in connection with this case.
The Delhi Court had yesterday dismissed their pleas, challenging the summons issued to them in this case. The summons were issued on a criminal complaint lodged by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy for alleged cheating and misappropriation of funds in acquiring ownership of now-defunct daily National Herald.
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The Congress leaders own a stake as directors in YIL, registered as a charitable company, as per the complaint.
The complaint alleged corruption in the assigning of loan worth Rs. 90.25 crore owed to the Congress by Associated Journals Limited (AJL), publisher of the National Herald, to YIL for Rs. 50 lakh.
Meanwhile, Swamy has filed a caveat in the Supreme Court to pre-empt any ex-parte order on appeals likely to be filed by the Congress chief and her son in this case.
The Congress had earlier expressed its disappointment over the summons issued to the party top brass in the National Herald case and accused the government of using the courts to run a 'vendetta' against the Nehru-Gandhi family.