BJP claims credit for action against Mallya, Cong ridicules it

New Delhi: The BJP and the Congress were involved in a war of words after tainted businessman Vijay Mallya was declared a fugitive economic offender by a court on Saturday, with the ruling party attributing it to strict action by the Modi Government against loan defaulters who flee the country.
Claiming credit, the BJP said action against Mallya was taken under a law enacted by the Modi Government in August 2018, and termed it as “a feather in the cap” in its fight against corruption. The Congress hit back saying that the BJP took credit for everything as if it all happened after 2014. It also raked up Mallya’s statement made in September last year that he had met Finance Minister Arun Jaitley before leaving the country. Jaitley had rejected Mallya’s claim as false, but the Congress has been raising it time and again to target the government.
A special court in Mumbai on Saturday declared the liquor baron a fugitive economic offender on a plea of the Enforcement Directorate. Mallya has become the first businessman to be declared an FEO under the provisions of the new FEO Act which came into existence in August last year. (PTI)