Congress and BJP caught in war of words after Chidambaram's arrest

The dramatic arrest of former union minister P Chidambaram has started a war of words between the Modi government and the opposition with both parties leaving no stones unturned at taking digs at each other The Congress has come down heavily on the ruling party over the arrest of Chidambaram accusing it of using the CBI and the ED as personal revengeseeking departmentsThe former finance minister was reportedly sent to custody by a special AntiCorruption Court on Thursday for four days till August 26 in the INX Media corruption caseSenior Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Friday took a swipe at the BJP government saying the economy is in ICU and the Modi dispensation has issued a ldquolook out notice for all those defending civil libertiesHis jibe at the government issuing look out notice was an obvious reference to probe agencies issuing such a notice for party colleague P Chidambaram and arresting him reported PTISibalwho also represented the senior Congress leader in court reflected on the events of the last few weeks saying that they have shown that the economy and the cause of liberty need a stimulus packageHe further tweeted that the economy is in ICU and the government has issued a lookout notice for all those defending civil libertiesThe events of the last few weeks have shown that both the economy and the cause of liberty need a stimulus package The economy is in ICU and government has issued a ldquo look out notice ldquo for all those defending civil liberties mdash Kapil Sibal KapilSibal August 23 2019Chhattisgarh Chief Minister and Indian National Congress leader Bhupesh Baghel on Thursday also accused the Centre of suppressing the voice of former Union Minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram for being critical to Narendra Modi governments policies and failures P Chidambaram was constantly criticising the policies of the central government and was pointing out their failures The government is not able to face the criticism and so they want to suppress the opposing voices Baghel told ANIThe Chief Minister further added Today our country is gripped in the financial crisis There is a fall in every sector including the automobile industry where employee strength is being cut and numerous plants are being shut The situation is bad in the government sector as wellOn the other hand BJP state president K Laxman has asserted that courts will take legal action against former Finance Minister P Chidambaram in the INX Media caseThe law will take its own action on whatever the misdeeds or corruption have been done The case is under prejudice Definitely courts are going to take proper and legal action Laxman told ANI here on ThursdayMeanwhile BJP vice president Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday said there was no political vendetta behind the action against former Union minister P Chidambaramrsquos arrestLaw takes in own course Chidambaram went to the court but did not get relief Congresss act of blaming the central government is not proper as it is working without any vendetta Chouhan told PTIIf someone has indulged in any wrongdoing it should be probed It hardly matters whether the wrongdoer is big or small said the former Madhya Pradesh chief ministerWith inputs from PTI and ANICatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updates