New Delhi, Sept 20 (UNI) Reiterating its charges that action by the Narendra Modi-led government against former Union Minister P Chidambaram over INX-Media case was a case of 'political vendetta', the Congress on Friday said that the investigating agencies have not revealed important facts to the case, and alleged that there has been a 'sustained campaign of villification and character assassination against the former Minister.
Addressing mediapersons at AICC headquarters, former Union Minister and senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said "why is the man who has approved what has been approved by 11 officers, been suddenly discovered to be to be a 'kingpin' for having perpetrated, 'an economic magnitude', the phrase that has been used."
"If the penalty for signing on files based on what has come to the Minister, is custody in Tihar Jail, no Minister, I can assure you, will sign any file", Mr Ramesh said, a day after Mr Chidambaram's judicial custody was extended till October 3, by a Delhi court.