TIL Desk/National/Raipur/ Congress President Rahul Gandhi has attacked Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, alleging that his daughter had received money from Mehul Choksi, the absconding accused in the Punjab National Bank (PNB) scam. He said the media was not highlighting this because it is being “threatened and suppressed”.
Gandhi was addressing a farmers’ rally here as part of the party’s campaign for the Assembly elections in Chhattisgarh next month. “You must have heard about Nirav Modi and Mehul Choksi, who had stolen Rs 35,000 crore of the country.
Choksi deposited lakhs of rupees in the bank account of FM Arun Jaitleys daughter,” the Congress leader claimed at the rally. He said the Finance Minister “did not take any action against Choksi following which he fled the country.
He said Congress leaders held a press conference in Delhi on Monday, giving “details” about bank account of Jaitley’s daughter “but unfortunately none of the major media houses carried this story. It is sad because the work of the media is to bring out the truth.”
