Congress leader addressing media before Sonia Gandhi and son Rahul Gandhi's appearence in a court
The Congress today said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government were behind Subramanian Swamy's court case against party chief Sonia Gandhi and son Rahul Gandhi in the National Herald issue.
The Congress leaders accused the central government of vendetta politics, saying the petitioner and BJP leader Subramanian Swamy was PM Modi's "mask".
Just before Gandhis were to appear before a court in Delhi, a host of party leaders, including Ghulam Nabi Azad, Mallikarjun Kharge, Anand Sharma and Randeep Singh Surjewala, addressed the media to attack the NDA government.
Mr Azad said Congress was not afraid of being "targeted" and asserted that more the party is attacked, the sooner it will return to power.
The Congress leaders claimed that Mr Swamy has been awarded with a bungalow for dragging Congress leadership to court even though he was not a Parliamentarian or government official.
"He (Swamy) has been placed under Z-category and allotted a government bungalow. He is not a member of the Parliament nor from a border state. He is not facing any threat from any terrorist organisation....The bungalow was given as an award for dragging the Congress leadership to court," said Azad.
He said the country has seen "unprecedented level" of vendetta politics since BJP came to power at the Centre and cited CBI raid against Himachal Chief Minister, "conspiracy" to bring down Congress government in Arunachal and raid at the Delhi Secretariat.
"Before elections, BJP had given a call for Congress-free India, now they are trying to have a Opposition-free India: Congress," he said.