The Congress on Tuesday demanded that Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy be questioned in the wake of Vijay Mallya fleeing the country as the controversial businessman was “national worki
The Congress on Tuesday demanded that Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy be questioned in the wake of Vijay Mallya fleeing the country as the controversial businessman was “national working president” of his now defunct Janata Party between 2003 and 2010.
“Mallya and Swamy have deep-rooted relations wherein Mallya was the national working president of Swamy’s Janata Party during 2003-2010,” party spokesman Pramod Tiwari told reporters.
He said the Congress has been raising serious but yet-to-be-answered questions about the “complicity” of the government in letting “Mallya escape from the bounds of Indian law and law enforcement agencies”.
“We would like to further ask if the Prime Minister’s favourite rabble-rouser, Subramanian Swamy, also played a role in letting Vijay Mallya abscond and fly off from Indian shores,” he said.
Mr Tiwari said the plot is increasingly getting “sinister” and the PM would do well to come out clean on “Mallyagate”.
Dr Swamy is the complainant in the National Herald case in which several Congress leaders, including Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, have been made accused.
Mr Tiwari also made a strong pitch for a probe in the wake of the sting operation purportedly showing several Trinamul Congress (TMC) leaders accepting money to help a fictitious private firm in poll-bound West Bengal.
