"The government cannot help them in the matter, nor can the Parliament. Why then disturb the Parliament and prevent the legislative activity from continuing?" Arun Jaitley writes.
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has taken on the Congress and its top leaders in a Facebook post for disrupting Parliament in the last few days over the National Herald case, in which Sonia Gandhi and Rahul have been summoned by a trial court to appear before it next week.
"There is equality before the law. No one is above the law. India has never accepted the dictat that the queen is not answerable to the law," the top minister and senior lawyer writes attacking the Congress leadership.
"The government cannot help them in the matter, nor can the Parliament. Why then disturb the Parliament and prevent the legislative activity from continuing?"
With nine working days left for the winter session to end, the government is worried about the fate of the Goods and Services Tax or GST Bill. The bill is yet to be passed in the Rajya Sabha and if the government wants to meet the April 1, 2016 deadline for rolling out GST, it must get the bill passed in this session.
The Upper House was adjourned without work today after Congress members refused to end disruptions. Prime Minister Narendra Modi said this morning that Parliament not functioning "was a matter of sorrow."
"Its Goebbelsian propaganda is that the party's leadership is a victim of political vendetta," Mr Jaitley writes in his post 'Why the Congress is Wrong.'
The Congress leaders are caught in a quagmire of their own making, the Finance Minister writes. "They have to find their own exit route out of the 'Chakravyuh'...They have acquired properties worth a huge amount without spending anything. They have used tax exempted income for a non-exempted purpose. They have transferred the income of a political party to a real estate company," he says.
Distancing the BJP from the case filed in the trial court, Mr Jaitley writes, "Since 2012, as a private citizen, Dr Subramaniam Swamy, alleges a breach of trust...Any citizen can set the process of criminal law into motion." Congress leaders including Mr Gandhi have alleged political vendetta on part of the BJP. Mr Swamy joined the BJP in 2013.