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BJP attacks Cong on PNB: 'Original sin took place under your rule'

New Delhi: The BJP on Saturday alleged that the multi-crore PNB scam involving billionaire jewellery designer Nirav Modi happened during the UPA rule and the Congress was spreading lies to mislead the public. The BJP, which fielded Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to counter the Congress's charges, claimed that it was under the NDA government that the alleged scams committed during the UPA rule were being unearthed.
The Congress has alleged that the scam took place in 2017 under the Modi government when letters of understanding were signed by Punjab National Bank in favour of the companies of Nirav Modi and his partner and uncle Mehul Choksi. Sitharaman said that Nirav Modi may have been able to run away from the country but the government is taking action against him, and claimed that it will "surely nab him".
"The original sin took place during the Congress regime. It multiplied, it took traction under the Congress regime," she told reporters. "We are not conspiring to help scamsters flee the country, but the BJP government is catching them instead," she said.
"I am sorry, the Congress party's allegations against this government and in misleading people is just not going to happen. Concerted repeating of lies for misleading the people may be a strategy the Congress likes to adopt. But I am sorry the facts are facing you and it is for them to answer," she said.
Sitharaman alleged Congress leader Rahul Gandhi had attended a promotional event hosted by Nirav Modi. She also claimed that the Nirav Modi-run Fire Star Diamond International has taken on lease a property of Adwait Holdings in which Congress leader Abhishek Singhvi's wife is a director. "What is important that the premises has been used by Fire Star Diamond International," she alleged.
Singhvi, however, denied any links of his family with Nirav Modi and Gitanjali Group promoter Mehul Choksi and charged the BJP with playing "cheap politics". "BJP/NDA's cheap sense of politics has reached ludicrous and ridiculous proportions. Neither my wife, sons nor me have anything whatsoever to do with Gitanjali or Nirav Modi companies," he said in a statement.
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