It is now routine practice to term any action against corruption “political vendetta”, said Union finance minister Arun Jaitley in a Facebook blog post on Wednesday. His comments come amid massive outrage across the country over the recent string of pre-poll raids by the Election Commission and the Income-Tax Department.
“It has become a routine practice to call any action against corruption as political vendetta. Claim of vendetta has never been a legitimate defence in corruption. Those who commit such large acts of corruption have to be judged on the merits of the action itself,” said the Finance Minister.