Law now catching up with Congress: BJP

New Delhi: Taking on the Congress leadership for defending former Union minister P Chidambaram, arrested in INX media corruption case, the BJP on Thursday claimed that the law “is now catching up with the Congress.” While rejecting the  opposition party’s claim that the ruling BJP was playing political vendetta against its  senior leader, the BJP hit back saying the Congress is trying to “convert corruption into a  revolution.”   

Senior BJP leader and Environment, Forest and Climate Change and Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Prakash Javadekar said the case in which the senior  Congress leader has been arrested is a “scam of massive corruption” and by supporting  him, the opposition party was displaying its “support for graft.” The minister said the  “law is now catching up with the Congress” and its rule from 2004-14 was “synonymous  with corruption.”

Mr Javadekar also rejected opposition party’s claim of political vendetta behind the  action against Mr Chidambaram and said the investigation agencies and courts are  doing their work.

“Looting the country was their (Congress) only mission and therefore law is now catching  up. We don’t interfere in the works of the CBI or any probe agency. Law will take its own  course, but now the Congress is united for protecting the corrupt. It is in support of  corruption  and this is on display,” said the Information and Broadcasting minister.

Echoing Mr Javadekar’s views, Minority Affairs minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi the  Congress is trying to “convert corruption into a revolution” by coming out in support of  Mr Chidambaram.

“The Congress is working with a negative mindset. They have converted corruption into  a revolution. This is for the first time that corruption is becoming a revolution. Till now,  revolution was against corruption, now revolution is being carried out in favour of  corruption,” said Mr Naqvi.