Chugh slams Congress over National Herald case, calls It “a symbol of moral collapse”

Chandigarh, May 23: BJP National General Secretary Tarun Chugh on Friday launched an attack on the Congress party over recent developments in the National Herald case, describing it as “not merely a financial scandal, but a historic betrayal of legacy and ethics.” Speaking at a press briefing in Chandigarh, Chugh accused the Congress of transforming a newspaper born out of India’s freedom struggle into a private asset of the Nehru-Gandhi family. “This is a textbook case of how a political party misused its own heritage for personal enrichment,” he alleged.

Citing a recent Enforcement Directorate (ED) report, Chugh noted that assets worth ₹142 crore have been identified as “proceeds of crime.”

“The question the nation is asking,” he said, “is who benefited from this money, and for what purpose?” Chugh raised eyebrows over what he termed “an extraordinary transaction,” where a company holding real estate valued in the thousands of crores was transferred for merely ₹90 crore. “What makes it even more troubling,” he added, “is that the buyer and the seller belonged to the same political fold. “This scandal isn’t just about misappropriation of money,” he concluded. “It reflects the moral, ethical, and ideological decay at the heart of the modern Congress party.”