BJP rejects demand for Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's resignation

Rejecting Rahul Gandhis demand for resignation of Finance Minister Arun Jaitley the BJP on Thursday sought to turn the tables by asking Congress President to quit from his post because of his alleged involvement in the National Herald caseThe party also dismissed the claims of Congress leader PL Punia who told the media that Jaitley and fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya met in the Central Hall of Parliament before the latter fled the country on March 2 2016Rahul Gandhi who is facing serious criminal charges should first resign The people of the country should thank Arun Jaitley who is working to bring the money back which was looted during the Congress rule Union Minister Piyush Goyal told a press conference in response to a question over Gandhis demand for Jaitleys resignationThose who took loans from hawala companies and accumulated wealth by taking government land free of cost or at lower rate from National Herald and whose case was rejected by the Delhi High Court should resign first he addedThe senior Bharatiya Janata Party BJP leader was responding to the charges made by Rahul Gandhi who demanded Jaitelys resignation after accusing him of colluding with fugitive liquor baron Vijay Mallya and giving him a free passage to flee the countryGandhi asked why the Minister did not inform the investigating agencies about Mallyas plans to leave IndiaResponding to the charges Goyal said that comments of a criminal or a person who is under the glare of law cannot be taken for any credibilityIt was a oneway traffic He Mallya was trying to talk to somebody in the passage By that logic I was watching Twitter Lots of people have put up photographs where Rahul Gandhi was seen with Arun Jaitley I dont think we can run away from Rahul Gandhi because he is a person accused of fraud of huge amount and high court has also dismissed his plea he saidThe BJP leader dubbed the charges levelled by Congress MP Punia as incredulous and suggested he appear before the investigative agencies He claimed that Punia was forced to speak under pressureWhere was he for the last twoandhalf years He should respond to the investigation agencies Twoandhalfyears later he remembers the conversation the time and a socalled meeting which never took place One suddenly raises questions on the credibilitya party colleague of Rahul Gandhi is making such incredulous claims he saidPunia had claimed the meeting between Jaitley and Mallya lasted 1520 minutes and alleged that Mallya took Jaitleys permission after holding consultations with him about his planned flight abroadThe Union Minister for Railways said that the Narendra Modi government never interferes in the work of investigative agenciesThis government has acted the most against bank defaulters I think this government took such steps to get the money back looted during Congress rule he saidShowing video clips of the statements made by then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Civil Aviation Minister Vayalar Ravi in 2010 which showed that the then government was trying to get Kingfisher out of trouble the BJP leader accused the Congress of breaking rules to pave the way for restructuring loans to MallyaHow since 2010 the Congress and the Gandhi family were having their say in the government The PM also then said that they wanted to bail out Kingfisher airlines This proves they allowed the loot Congress the Prime Minister then Aviation Minister were also involved in the conspiracy to save Kingfisher Airlines he saidThe Congress party should clarify what relations they had with Kingfisher Airlines This shows the propensity to which the Congress can lie to cover up their sins he saidCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updatesThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Except for the change in the headline the story has been provided ASIS AS AVAILABLE without any verification or editing from our side Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever