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In response to the several allegations made by Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi against BJP, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad held a press conference slamming Rahul and Congress.

At the press conference, calling all allegations levelled by Rahul Gandhi as ‘baseless’ the Union Minister said that Congress is trying to divert attention from alleged involvement of Gandhi family and other senior Congress leaders in numerous scams, including the AgustaWestland scam.

“Rahul Gandhi is levelling baseless charges to divert attention from AgustWestland scam,” said Ravi Shankar Prasad.

Ravi Shankar Prasad further added saying that PM Narendra Modi is ‘pure like Ganga’ and it isn’t justified to level such charges against the Prime Minister of a country. Moreover, with what face is Congress making such statements, when they themselves are involved in numerous cases related to corruption and causing heavy losses to exchequer.

“PM Narendra Modi is pure like Ganga and levelling such serious charges against Modi isn’t justified,” the Union Minister added.

The Union Minister listed out all the scams that involved the Congress and its allies during the UPA-I and UPA-II Governments. He said that Congress is deeply rooted into corruption on deals related to all three mediums - land, air and water.

Concluding his press conference, Ravi Shankar Prasad said that his party (BJP) strongly condemned the irresponsible, shameful, and baseless remarks made by the Congress vice-president.

Earlier in the day, Rahul Gandhi accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of receiving money in crores from Subrata Roy-owned Sahara group.

Rahul Gandhi demanded that an inquiry be launched into this, as the Income Tax has previously recommended.

“Sahara has written in their dairy that in the span of six months, Narendra Modiji was given a bribe nine times. Now, I want to know a few things from Narendra Modiji. These records are with the Income Tax Department. The Income tax has stamped and signed these papers. Income Tax has mentioned that there should be an inquiry. Why has there been no inquiry for the last two and half years?”