While on row over finance minister Arun Jaitley’s meeting with Vijay Mallya in 2016 Rahul Gandhi retorted back on BJP raising questions that was it Jaitley who helped Mallya flee the country or was it that he received orders from PM Modi to do so?
Blazing guns at Arun Jaitley, he said that it’s a clear-cut case of collusion with a fugitive because how is it that he did not think of informing the ED or the CBI that Mallya was about to flee the country.
The Congress President further retorted and asked that why is it that the finance minister have an extended meeting with the liquor-baron and what was it that was discussed between them and has to come clean and give an explanation to the nation.
On the other hand, Congress spokesperson P.L. Punia stated that he was a witness to the meeting that happened on 1st March 2016 during the budget session between finance minister Arun Jaitley and Vijay Mallya. He said the meeting lasted for around 15 minutes and both kept talking to each other and this was the first time that Mallya had come to the Parliament and it seemed he came there just to meet the finance minister. He further said, that the CCTV footage of that meeting in the Parliament can be perused and it seems that Jaitley seemed to have enabled him to flee the country and had discussed this at length.
More so, blazing guns at the Bhartiya Janata Party, Congress President Rahul Gandhi remarked, “Who is it that converted the ‘arrest notice’ into ‘informed notice’? This can only be done by someone who controls the CBI.” He further added, “This is an open and shut case. The finance minister should tell the country whether he received orders from someone to help Mallya flee the country or he did it himself. “
Coming harder on the finance minister, Rahul retorted, “This is a collusion and some or the other deal has been worked out about which he should come clean and he should step down from his designation of finance minister.
He further said, “The finance minister is responsible to take action against the economic offenders and the finance minister himself is meeting them in the parliament and he is lying about the meeting”.
It was on Wednesday that Vijay Mallya, the fugitive tycoon said that he had met the finance minister Arun Jaitley before going to London and had told him about going to London.
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