Cong disrupting Parl to prevent discussion on National Herald

Union Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal today launched a scathing attack on the Congress saying it was "disrupting" the Parliament by giving political colour to "unfortunate incidents" in order to prevent discussion on the National Herald case.
In a statement issued here, the Union Food Processing Industries Minister and Akali leader said that it was unfortunate that the Congress was disrupting the Parliament in order to prevent discussion on the National Herald case in which its president Sonia Gandhi and Vice President Rahul Gandhi had received court summons.
Kaur said that such tactics however would not succeed for long. "You will have to account for your thefts and are liable to be justly punished by the law of the land. You cannot wriggle away from your illegal acts by hiding behind the cloak of political persecution and will have to tell the people why you indulged in such illegalities," she added.

The Union minister also criticised the Punjab Congress and its Abohar based leader Sunil Jakhar for showing rank hypocrisy.
She said this leader, who was holding protests to demand action against those who had murdered a Dalit, had campaigned with the very same attackers in the last municipal committee elections.
She said it was unfortunate that a case of gang war between two rival gangs, in which a Jat Sikh had also been attacked, was being projected as a case of Dalit persecution.

"Let me remind the Congress that Punjab has the highest Dalit population in the country. Despite this crime against Dalits is the lowest in the State according to the national crime bureau statistics", she added.

Stating this was not the first time that the Congress had tried to sensationalise unfortunate incidents in Punjab, she said the unfortunate part was that the party was also collaborating with AAP to raise such issues in parliament.
"Both parties have however not considered it fit to raise the issue of acquisition of assets by Virbhadra Singh (HP CM) or the issue of foreign bank and trusts of Capt Amarinder Singh (Punjab Congress chief)," she said.
She also asked the Congress to explain the shady business deals of Robert Vadra, son-in-law of Sonia Gandhi, during the previous UPA regime.
The SAD leader said the Congress owed an explanation to the nation as to how financial favours were doled out to Vadra during the Congress government in Haryana while an honest officer standing against the son in law of the Gandhi family was victimised.