BJP diverting focus from RSS-terror link: Congress

The Congress on Sunday reacted sharply to the Bharatiya Janata Party's allegations against Sonia Gandhi and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Bofors and 2G spectrum scams, saying the opposition party is trying to divert attention from the 'Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's complicity in terrorism' by levelling such accusations.

"These are things being done deliberately to digress and divert attention from documented investigation reports showing the full complicity of RSS in terrorism," party spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi said while reacting to the allegations of the BJP.

The opposition party at its National Executive meet in Guwahati on Sunday decided to go the whole hog after the first family of Congress, alleging that Ottavio Quattrocchi's involvement in the pay-offs lead "directly to the doorstep of Sonia Gandhi".

Dubbing BJP's allegations a 'travesty of truth', Singhvi said, "The BJP speaks up about Bofors and forgets the 2004 Delhi high court judgement, which passed strictures against the National Democratic Alliance and said that Rajiv Gandhi should not even be accused"

While maintaining that "for 23 years, not an iota has been found about Congress or Rajiv Gandhi in the case," the Congress spokesperson made it clear that the party has "nothing to say or do with regard to action taken according to law in respect of other individuals like Win Chadda, Hinduja and Quattrocchi".

On the BJP pointing fingers at the Prime Minister's Office, the Congress spokesperson said, "The BJP is a minority on this planet to dream that even remotely the Prime Minister's Office is in any way connected with the 2G scam."

He said that the allegations by the opposition party only show it is yet to reconcile to its successive defeats.

"The BJP has not reconciled to its ouster in 2004 and a second resounding rejection in 2009. Now they are repeating a 23-year-old campaign," he said.