Congress today alleged that the barrage of "false cases" registered against its leader were nothing but a part of political "vengeance" unleashed by BJP governments at the Centre and in Haryana, and asserted that it will "unmask" the evil design of the ruling party.
Referring to "false cases" registered against family members of P Chidambaram and Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Shankarsinh Vaghela in Gujarat, Virbhadra Singh, Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot, Congress spokesman Randeep Singh Surjewala alleged that the ruling party was doing it to disguise its failures at the governance front.
Apparently referring to the National Herald case, in which Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi were summoned in a lower court recently, Surjewala alleged the BJP was using "lumpen elements" like Subramanian Swamy to target Congress leadership and shamed the democracy by its "dictatorial" behaviour, he said.
"Both the Narendra Modi government at the Centre and the Manohar Lal Khatar government in Haryana are targetting their political opponents by fabricating opposition leaders in false cases with political vendetta and vengeance," Surjewala said here.
"Gimmickry" and "rhetoric" have become synonymns of Narendra Modi and Khattar, Surjewala said, adding that the BJP rode to power promising good days but has "utterly failed" to govern.
To deflect attention from "paralysis of governance", Modi and Khattar have unleashed a sinister "politics of vendetta" against their rivals, he said.
"Defeat, deception and double speak" have become the hallmarks of the BJP both at the national and state level, he said adding that
"Incompetence of governance was being sought to be explained by surreptitious blame game on opposition or shifting of focus by malicious acts of foistering false cases on opponents," he said.
"Congress leaders will not be deterred by such acts of ill will or vicious agenda in registration of false cases," he said, adding that "Congress is determined to give a reply to this autocratic behaviour to Modi and Khattar governments and take the fight to court of people.
Surjewala said that the Congress will "unmask" the evil
design of BJP.
Referring to the issue of allotment of industrial plots in Panchkula by previous Hooda government, he said that the matter was sub judice, but the Khattar government first ordered vigilance inquiry and then suddenly handed over the case to the CBI.
"It is a clear case of malice and political agenda," he added.
He alleged that the recent registration of cases against unnamed persons by the CBI in Manesar in Gurgaon and constitution of Commissions of Inquiry were done for seeking "personal and political revenge".
Hitting out at Indian National Lok Dal (INLD), the Congress leader said that the party led by jailed leader Om Parkash Chautala is playing a "friendly and fixed match" in collusion with the BJP.
Taking a jibe at the Khattar government, Surjewala said that it appeared that the Haryana government was bitten by the bug of "photo ops" and "staying in the headlines", whether it is going to office on cycle for one day only or a "photo op ride" on the bullock cart or a quest to stay in news by raids, controversial statements and publicly humiliating government employees.
On the issue of extending terms and references of Dhingra Commission probing land deals in Gurgaon, including that of Robert Vadra, he said all policies and licences have been given as per established law in 1975 and no favours had been done to anyone.
Over the issue of GST, he said that the RSS and its Swadeshi Jagaran Manch did not want it to be implemented.
"Biggest roadblocks in the passage of GST, the brainchild of Congress, were Modi, Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj between 2006 to 2014," he added.
"RSS has made the BJP government its personal fiefdom," he said, adding that the "misrule" of Modi and Khattar had been exposed.
Surjewala sought a probe by a sitting judge into what he called as a paddy procurement scandal of Rs 5,000 crore and supply of "untreated wheat crop seeds" in Haryana.
