"The Centre thinks it can stop me from asking questions about them by "vendetta" politics. That is not going to happen," Rahul told the media in Puducherry.
Hitting out at the NDA government, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said that he sees a political vendetta in the National Herald case.
"I absolutely see a political vendetta. This is the way the Central government functions," Rahul Gandhi said.
"The Centre thinks it can stop me from asking questions about them by "vendetta" politics. That is not going to happen," Rahul told the media in Puducherry.
He also said that he will keep putting pressure on them (government) and will react to this when he will go to the Parliament on Wednesday.
Rahul is presently visiting the rain-hit areas in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi, her son vice president Rahul Gandhi and others were on Tuesday directed to appear in person on December 19 by a Delhi court in the National Herald case.
Senior advocates Abhishek Manu Singhvi, Harin Raval and Ramesh Gupta appeared for the Gandhis and other accused and moved separate pleas seeking exemption from personal appearance for their clients for today only.
The Delhi High Court had earlier rejected their pleas for quashing the summons against them and made scathing observations on their "questionable conduct" regarding how they took control of the publication.
"We told the court that the accused are extremely keen, ready and willing to appear before magistrate at the earliest possible date. Earliest possible date was given on our request. On December 19, all accused barring one who’s in US will certainly be present at 3 pm," Abhishek Manu Singhvi said.
Meanwhile, hitting out at Congress for disrupting proceedings in Parliament, Union minister M Venkaiah Naidu said the government had no role to play at all in the National Herald case in which Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul have been summoned to appear by the court.
"They should contest it in court. How can you hold the government responsible. It is totally unfair and irresponsible to fix it on the government as they could not face the truth.They are now trying to blame the government," he told reporters outside Parliament.
Congress members, upset over the National Herald case, paralysed Parliament protesting against alleged "vendetta politics" leading to repeated adjournments in Lok Sabha as well as Rajya Sabha.
Justice Sunil Gaur had on Monday turned down their plea for exemption from personal appearance in the case in the trial court on Tuesday.
Along with the Gandhis, five other accused--Suman Dubey, Moti Lal Vohra, Oscar Fernandez, Sam Pitroda and Young India Ltd--had challenged the summons issued to them by a trial court on a complaint by BJP leader Subramanian Swamy against them for alleged cheating and misappropriation of funds in taking control of the now-defunct daily.
The court had said that the Congress leaders need to explain what was the need to assign the "huge debt of Rs 90 crores" when this loan could have been repaid by AJL from its "sizeable assets" of Rs 2000 crore.
Meanwhile, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy has filed a caveat in the Supreme Court to pre-empt any ex-parte order on appeals likely to be filed by Congress chief Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul.
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