Mallya 'a sin of Congress', BJP hits back at Rahul

Calling Vijay Mallya "a sin of Congress", BJP today hit back at Rahul Gandhi after he asked the Centre why it allowed the liquor baron to fly to the UK even as the party noted that it was under the UPA government that banks gave him loans despite his "dubious" finances.
When Congress was in power it "looted" public money and gave a free run to some "crook" industrialists to do so as well, BJP alleged.
"Congress is now blaming the government for sins committed by its government. People like Mallya are its sins. Rahul Gandhi should rather answer why Mallya was given loans by 17 banks, most of which are run by government, between 2004 and 2009 despite having dubious finances. What was his party's deal with him?" party National Secretary Shrikant Sharma said.

He alleged Congress had taken no serious action against former IPL boss Lalit Modi, now wanted by ED, and later accused BJP of being soft on him.
"It is Congress which is champion of corruption while our government is acting against such people," he said as he made a mention of Ottavio Quattrocchi, an alleged beneficiary in Bofors case whose escape from India was today used by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to attack Congress after Rahul's criticism of the government.
The Congress vice-president should do some homework before he attacks the government and his remarks only prove that he is "part time non-serious" politician, Sharma said.

Attacking Rahul over 'fair and lovely' jibe at a scheme brought out by the government to unearth black money, he said, those coming clean under it will have to pay 15 per cent fine, besides 30 per cent tax.
When the then government had brought out a scheme on similar lines in 1997, it envisaged 30 per cent tax on undisclosed assets at the market price prevailing in 1987 and slapped no fine, he claimed.