Smriti Irani questions Kapil Sibal's land deal, Congress leader hits back

039;Is it natural for Congress to deal with money launderers?': Smriti Irani's frontal attack on Rahul Gandhi

039;Is it natural for Congress to deal with money launderers?': Smriti Irani's frontal attack on Rahul Gandhi

The ongoing verbal duel between Congress and BJP took a turn on Thursday with I&B Minister Smriti Irani accusing Congress leader Kapil Sibal of business links with a person accused of money laundering, when Sibal was law minister in the UPA government.

"Some people will say that it is Sibal's right to buy a company which has a very shadowy existence, to engage with an alleged money-launderer".

While commenting on Smriti Irani's allegations against him, senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal confirmed that he had bought the company Grand Castello and nobody should mind it. At the heart of the controversy is an alleged deal between Kapil Sibal and an individual who is referred to be an alleged money launderer citing news reports from India and South Africa. The same person with whom Kapil Sibal had a business deal was accused of giving bribe to a CBI official and against whom the then United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government initiated an inquiry. "He may have a right to be associated with a money launderer, but the question that I ask is this: Is this politically acceptable to Rahul Gandhi?". I have bought a piece of land with my tax-paid earnings.

Quoting reports in an Indian website and an South African publication, Ms Irani said Mr Sibal had denied purchasing any such property but his claims were disputed by the South African publication which claimed to have the auditors reports to substantiate the charge.

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"It is sad that in this country economics and maths exam papers are leaked which never happened in the past". I have also been the HRD minister.

He also said that to his knowledge, there were no proceedings of money laundering against anybody and if there were, the person concerned should be asked about them instead. Why are Aadhaar data being leaked? If you talk about Election Commission, election dates are leaked. "So the government knows how to protect information, what they don't want to be leaked is not leaked", the Congress leader said.

Sibal retorted: "I am surprised she did a press conference and did not ask why the Prime Minister has close relations with Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi". "Sibal must answer this question", she said.

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