: Political vendetta: Congress on Yes Bank co-founder Rana Kapoors MF Hussain painting allegation #IndiaNEWS #National New Delhi: The Congress Sunday termed as political vendetta the allegation by Yes

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Political vendetta: Congress on Yes Bank co-founder Rana Kapoors MF Hussain painting allegation #IndiaNEWS #National
New Delhi: The Congress Sunday termed as political vendetta the allegation by Yes Bank co-founder Rana Kapoor who has told the Enforcement Directorate that he was forced to buy an MF Husain painting from party leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and questioned his and the EDs credibility.
Kapoor has told the ED that he was forced to buy the M F Husain painting from Priyanka Gandhi and the sale proceeds were utilised by the Gandhi family for the medical treatment of Congress president Sonia Gandhi in New York, according to the charge sheet filed by the federal anti-money laundering agency in a special court in Mumbai.
He told the Enforcement Directorate (ED) that he was told by the then petroleum minister Murli Deora that the refusal to buy the painting will not only prevent him from building a relationship with the Gandhi family but also prevent him from getting the Padma Bhushan award.
Kapoor also told the agency that Ahmed Patel, a close confidante of Sonia Gandhi, had told him that by supporting the Gandhi family at an opportune time for medical treatment of Sonia Gandhi, I (Kapoor) had performed a good deed for the family and it would be duly considered for the Padma Bhushan award.
Asked about the allegations at a press conference, Congress spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said, This is absolutely astonishing. I dont want to use a strong word, it is absolutely disgusting that a 2010 transaction, a person who is behind bars for years, whose 20-30 bail applications have been rejected, who is called a crook and a fraudster, makes allegations about dead people and the government is jumping with joy only because it suits their political angle.
The government wants to keep the pot boiling for 2022, for a transaction in 2010, when neither Murli Deora is here to deny it nor Ahmed Patel is here to deny, Singhvi said.
What is the objective of this, is it the result of your (government) pressure tactics and coercion on a person behind bars eager to get his freedom to record statements against political opponents and to keep a 12-year-old thing boiling just for convenience of politics, the Rajya Sabha MP said, hitting out at the government.
However, BJP IT Cell head Amit Malviya alleged that it is quite clear from Rana Kapoors confession to the ED that the Gandhis and the Congress are not just extortionist but were also selling the countrys highest civilian honour to the highest bidder or durbaris, who did their bidding.
In his response to the allegations, Singhvi cited that in March 2014, the Yes Bank loan book stood at Rs 55,000 crore and in March 2019, it had increased nearly five times to Rs 2. 41 lakh crore.
The loan book of Yes Bank also showed a very dramatic increase between two other dates which are very inconvenient for the Modi government about which neither the government nor the prime minister talk about anymore.

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