Nirmala Sitharaman: Blames Congress for 'original sin', questions Rahul Gandhi's presence at Gitanjali Jewels occasion

NEW DELHI, Feb 17 BJP has charged that best Congress leaders are associated with the PNB scam. Barely an hour after Congress' conference, Union Minister Nirmala Sitharaman accused the past United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government of misleading people and concealing the multi-million Punjab National Bank (PNB) extortion by charging the BJP.

"The original sin in this specific scene of Nirav Modi was conferred in 2011," said Sitharaman in a press conference.

Alleging top Congress leaders are engaged with this trick, Sitharaman stated, "Fire Star Diamond International Pvt Ltd. is one of the companies of Nirav Modi. They have acquired it from Advait Holdings and one of its investors is Anita Singhvi since 2002."

Anita Singhvi is the spouse of Congress representative Abhishek Singhvi.

"Gitanjali Gems was suspended for a half year from working together on NSE in 2013. On September 13, 2013, Rahul Gandhi went to a limited time occasion of this adornments gathering," said the Defense Minister.

The entire focus of the Centre has been on getting hold of the main Nirav Modi in the PNB fraud case, said the BJP serve. "It is the Modi government which has endeavored to get to the base of the situation. Several other actions being taken by govt.”

"The Narendra Modi govt comes a reasonable sense of duty regarding take actions against the corrupt practices," said the Defence Minister, including, "Congress misleading people. It's a piece of their methodology. UPA tried to cover up the scam.”

The blame game between the main political gatherings has been going ahead since the news of PNB extortion opened up to the world. While the Congress has been blaming the BJP for letting extremely rich person Nirav Modi leave the nation, the BJP has hit back saying the PNB trick occurred in the past UPA government administration.

Prior today, senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal assaulted PM Modi on his refusal to accept BJP's part in the Nirav Modi-PNB scam.