New Delhi: The Congress on Friday shared footage on social media of the alleged ‘kingpin’, arrested within the case of seizure of medication price Rs 5,600 crore, with BJP leaders to hit again at Union Dwelling Minister Amit Shah who claimed that he was a outstanding Congress chief.
Posting footage of Tushar Goel, the primary accused within the drug bust, with BJP leaders, Congress’ media and publicity division head Pawan Khera stated, “How can the highest ministers of the nation scale back themselves to be third fee liars?”
“Will he clarify the connection of this drug peddler with the BJP leaders?” Khera stated, tagging a media report on Shah’s remarks.
Khera’s remarks got here after Shah on Friday stated the “involvement” of a outstanding Congress chief within the Rs 5,600-crore drug bust in north India is “extraordinarily harmful and shameful”.
Shah additionally stated everybody has seen the plight of the youth of Punjab, Haryana and your entire north India on account of medication throughout the Congress rule.
“Whereas on one hand, the Modi authorities is adopting a zero-tolerance coverage for a ‘drug-free India’, the involvement of a outstanding Congress chief within the Rs 5,600-crore drug consignment seized from north India is extraordinarily harmful and shameful,” the minister wrote on X in Hindi.
He stated whereas the Modi authorities is taking the youth in direction of sports activities, schooling and innovation, the “Congress desires to take them into the darkish world of medication”.
In one in every of Delhi’s largest drug busts, the police seized over 560 kg of cocaine and 40 kg of hydroponic marijuana estimated to be price round Rs 5,620 crore earlier this week.
The BJP on Thursday alleged that the kingpin, Tushar Goel, arrested in reference to the seizure of medication is the chairman of the Delhi Youth Congress’ RTI Cell, a declare refuted by the opposition celebration as baseless.
The Indian Youth Congress (IYC) stated in a press release that Goel was expelled from the organisation on October 17, 2022 for anti-party actions quickly after BJP spokesperson and MP Sudhanshu Trivedi charged the opposition celebration with having hyperlinks with drug sellers.
