New Delhi, Apr 11: Launching a fresh tirade, BJP today charged Congress President Sonia Gandhi with "using" her children and grandchildren as a protective "shield" to draw political mileage during the elections and asked her to come clean on the Bofors controversy. "It is indeed a sad and bad commentary on the part of Gandhi and against Indian tradition to use her children and grandchildren as an emotional shield against the controversy to get political mileage at the time of polls.
"Instead, people expect a direct reply from her on the disclosures made by a Swedish police officer, who was involved in the investigation of the pay-off case from the beginning," party spokesman Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi told reporters here. Gandhi had in Raipur yesterday accused BJP of raking up the controversy deliberately for the last 18 years and sarcastically remarked that it could be thrust upon her great grand children also one day.
He said Gandhi's silence on the issue and the Congress party dubbing the "disclosures" as "bogus and politically motivated" only raises question marks on her motives. Bureau Report