Senior advocate Mahesh Jethmalani questions Congress for not making MoU with CPC public

Senior advocate Mahesh Jethmalani on Thursday slammed Congress party for t revealing contents of 2008 MoU signed with Communist Party of China. He mentioned that Congress president Sonia Gandhi had given a "freewheeling interview" regarding agreement to Chinese news ncy Xinhua but was yet to share it with Indian public. Jethmalani questioned wher Congress party was hesitant to share MoU because its terms were more in favour of China than India. senior advocate was referring to Goa Chronicle's article which featured certain quotes from Sonia Gandhi's written interview to Xinhua in 2011.  Earlier, he had demanded an NIA probe into this matter citing "possible sinister implications for country’s security".

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PIL filed in SC

On Wednesday, a Public Interest Litigation was filed in Supreme Court seeking an NIA probe into MoU signed between Congress party and Communist Party of China on August 7, 2008. Maintaining that nation's security could t be compromised by anyone, petitioners claimed that aforesaid agreement pertained to exchanging high-level information and cooperation between Congress and CPC besides providing two parties with "opportunity to consult each or on important bilateral, regional and international developments”. reafter, y listed visits of Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her family to China during this period, which included attending opening ceremony of Beijing Olympics. 

Alleging that re were nearly 600 Chinese intrusions from 2008 to 2013 on India's side of LAC, PIL ted that Congress-led UPA was in power at that juncture. PIL added that Congress party had refused to make contents of MoU public despite repeated appeals from one of petitioners, Savio Rodrigues- Editor-in-Chief of Goa Chronicle. According to PIL, MoU had evoked several questions such as wher national security could be sabotd by an agreement with "enemy state". 

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