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‘There’s Evidence’: Gadkari Reacts On Chidambaram’s Bail, Recalls False Cases

Mumbai:  Gadkari, on former Finance Minister P Chidambaram’s bail in the INX Media money laundering case said that there is evidence for cases against the senior Congress leader.

P Chidambaram had got bail by the SC and steps out from the Tihar Jail. “So finally Chidambaram too joins the long list of “OOBC (Out On Bail Club)” in the Congress,” BJP leader Sambit Patra said, tweeting his party’s first response to the 74-year-old leader’s imminent release from jail.

Gadkari told ANI that Chidambaram filed false cases against him, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah during his stint as Finance Minister under the Congress regime.

In the run-up to the Rajasthan state elections last year, PM Modi had said that some people were calling the Congress ‘bail gaadi’, not bullock cart, “because some of its top leaders and former ministers are on bail”. “At present, their top leadership is on bail vis-a-vis a major scam,” PM Modi wrote in a blog ahead of the national elections this year.

“We have never been vindictive, on the other hand when Chidambaram was Home Minister during Congress rule, he filed false cases against me, he also filed false cases against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Amit Shah. Later, we all were proved innocent,” Nitin Gadkari said.

“He (Chidambaram) joins the coveted Club,” Patra said before listing Congress president Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Robert Vadra, Bhupinder Hooda and Shashi Tharoor as some members of this group.

The Congress leader was first arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on August 21 in the INX Media corruption case but was granted bail by the Supreme Court two months later.

Chidambaram sought bail in a case pertaining to the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) clearance given to INX Media to the tune of Rs 305 crore in 2007 during his tenure as the finance minister.

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