Judicial orders shouldn't be politicised: NCP

Expressing disappointment over the repeated disruptions in the Parliament over the National Herald case, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leader Majeed Memon on Wednesday said it would be better if the judicial orders are not dragged into any political controversy.

"Non- functioning of the Parliament on this issue doesn't seem to be proper to me personally. As a person from the court, I would feel that it is better if the courts are kept aloof and the judicial orders are not dragged into any political controversy," Memon told ANI.

"As far as the order of the Delhi High Court is concerned, I don't think it has anything to do with either politics or with the opposition party. I believe the Congress has been saying this that they respect the orders of the court," he added.

Both the Houses of Parliament yesterday witnessed repeated adjournments following a ruckus by the Congress MPs over the National Herald case.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lambasted the Congress for disrupting the proceedings in both the Houses of Parliament without any reason.

Minister of State of Parliamentary Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi charged the Congress with politicising the National Herald case. He said the Congress has no issue to debate in the Parliament and, therefore, it is creating ruckus unnecessarily.

Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Nirmala Sitharaman said the Congress should not be worried if it had not done anything wrong in the case.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi and party vice-president Rahul Gandhi have been asked to appear in a Delhi Court on December 19 in connection with this case.

The summons were issued to them on a criminal complaint lodged by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy for alleged cheating and misappropriation of funds in acquiring ownership of now-defunct daily National Herald.

The Congress leaders own a stake as directors in YIL, registered as a charitable company, as per the complaint.

The complaint alleged corruption in the assigning of loan worth Rs. 90.25 crore owed to the Congress by Associated Journals Limited (AJL), publisher of the National Herald, to YIL for Rs. 50 lakh.