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CHANDIGARH, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh today dismissed the income tax department complaint against his son Raninder Singh in a Ludhiana court on Saturday, as a “classic case of political vendetta borne out of bruised egos and haunting memory of a humiliating defeat”.
Reacting to the complaint, Capt Amarinder maintained that he had full faith in the judiciary and expressed confidence that his son will come out clean in the case after the due judicial process.
The PCC president said, it was not for the first time that the issue had been raked up. “They have been doing it for the last two years since my Amritsar election and every time they tried it, they failed miserably and they will fail once again”, he asserted, while pointing out that the issue was raised by Mr Narendra Modi during an election speech in Barmer and Subramanian Swamy in run up to the 2014 General Elections and they have been pursuing it since then with dogged pursuit without any success.
He said, the very timing of the complaint and the way it was circulated to the media proves beyond any doubt the real intentions of the people at whose behest it was being done. “Otherwise how come the copies of the complaint were circulated among the media almost at the same time while it was being lodged in the court?” he asked, while adding, “because they knew that the complaint will not hold any ground in the judicial process and they decided to go for a concurrent media trial in an obvious bid to defame me much before the Honourable court comes out with its judgment”.
“I thought Mr Jaitely had put his defeat behind him and had decided to move on with the important portfolio he is holding despite his humiliating electoral defeat, but I was wrong as he has not been able to forget that defeat”, Capt Amarinder observed, adding, “it seems that every time he recalls the 2014 April of Amritsar his bruised ego haunts him and it concludes in an IT notice/case against one or the other of my family members from time to time”.
The former Chief Minister said, he was not the only one in the Congress who was being targeted by the BJP government at the centre, particularly its finance minister. “This list is long and it tends to get longer with passage of time”, he remarked, while pointing out how the BJP government had tried to falsely implicate the Congress President Ms Sonia Gandhi, vice president Rahul Gandhi, P Chidambaram, his son and Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbadra Singh.
Capt Amarinder said, with the elections in Punjab less than a year away and the BJP and their alliance government in the state headed for a complete rout, the central government was trying to contrive and create false accusations and allegations against his family. “Every time these allegations have fallen flat and these will fall flat once more”, he said, while expressing faith and confidence in country’s judicial system.
