"I want to ask Rahul Gandhi...": G Kishan Reddy's jibe on Congress silence over seizure of cash from Dheeraj Sahu
Dec 10, 2023
New Delhi [India], December 10 : Amid the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) barb over the seizure of huge amounts of cash during the Income Tax raids at the premises linked to Congress MP Dheeraj Sahu in Jharkhand, Union Minister G Kishan Reddy asked Rahul Gandhi on Sunday why he had not posted anything on social media regarding the matter.
"From Rahul Gandhi's close friend and Rajya Sabha MP Dheeraj Sahu's offices, around Rs 200 crore was seized by I-T...I want to ask Rahul Gandhi: Why haven't you posted anything about this on social media? Why haven't you said anything about this? Because Congress always supports corruption," Reddy told reporters.
Meanwhile, BJP MP K Laxman also fired fresh salvos at the Congress, claiming that wherever there is Congress, there is corruption.
"I want to ask why Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi are quiet on this issue... Where there is a Congress government, only corruption is there. PM Modi has a vision of zero tolerance against corruption... PM Modi will not spare the corrupt, and soon the Congress will be exposed," Laxman said. 
Income Tax sleuths have recovered more than Rs 200 crore cash from several locations in Odisha and Jharkhand during their raids against Boudh Distilleries Private Limited (BDPL) and entities linked to it.
The residences of Congress Rajya Sabha MP Dheeraj Sahu were also searched.The episode has provided fresh ammunition to the Bharatiya Janata Party, which is leaving no stone unturned to attack the opposition Congress over the incident.
Union Minister Smriti Irani has questioned the grand old party and said that the Gandhi family must tell the country for which Congress leader, the Rajya Sabha MP, was working as an 'ATM'.
"Rs 200 crore has been recovered from the premises of their party MP, Dheeraj Prasad Sahu and the counting is still going on. Mohabbat Ki Dukaan Mein Corruption Ka Karobaar Chal Raha Hai (a business of corruption is being run in Mohabbat Ki Dukaan). The Congress high command, which means the Gandhi family, will have to tell the country for which Congress leader of the Gandhi family he was working as an ATM," she said on Friday while speaking to ANI.
Earlier on Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on his X handle, tagging a news report about the I-T department recovering Rs 200 crore in cash from various locations of a business group allegedly linked to Sahu, took a swipe at the opposition party.
"Countrymen should look at these piles of currency notes and then hear the addresses of their (Congress) leaders on honesty. Every penny looted from people will have to be returned. This is Modi's guarantee," PM Modi said in a post with several emojis.
Meanwhile, the Congress said that the party is in no way connected with the businesses of the former and that the lawmaker from Jharkhand should explain the matter.
On social media platform X, the Congress General Secretary in Charge of Communications, Jairam Ramesh, said that only Dheeraj Sahu can explain the huge amounts of cash reportedly unearthed by the income-tax authorities from his properties.
"The Indian National Congress is in no way connected with the businesses of Dheeraj Sahu, MP. Only he can explain, and should explain, how huge amounts of cash have been reportedly unearthed by the income-tax authorities from his properties," the Congress leader wrote on X.
