Congress playing victim card in National Herald case: Sachdeva

Reacting sharply to the Congress’ nationwide protests over the Enforcement Directorate’s chargesheet in the National Herald case, Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva on Wednesday termed the agitation “a classic case of the thief crying foul”.

Calling the Congress’ outcry an attempt to politicise a legal matter, Sachdeva said the chargesheet was not an act of political vendetta but the outcome of a petition filed during the UPA regime. “If the case was baseless or motivated, the Gandhi family, which was in power between 2012 and 2014, had every opportunity to get it quashed. But they didn’t, because they knew the charges had merit,” he said.

Sachdeva accused the Congress’ top leadership of misusing party resources for personal gain. “The properties associated with the National Herald were built through the contributions of thousands of Congress workers. These were later turned into personal assets by the Gandhi family by converting them into a private company,” he alleged.

He further said the ongoing legal troubles of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi — both currently out on bail — stemmed from a long-standing investigation under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), not any pressure from the BJP government.

“It is unfortunate that the Congress’ first family is now hiding behind party workers to give a political colour to a corruption case,” Sachdeva said, asserting that the issue involved not just financial wrongdoing but a deep betrayal of public trust.

The BJP’s response comes amid widespread Congress protests across the capital and other parts of the country following the ED’s chargesheet against senior leaders, including Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, in connection with the National Herald case.

Delhi