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Scaling up the attack on the Congress party over allegations against Ahmed Patel, Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Saturday said that if the grand old party does not act then the blot will be larger than that of corruption.

Chief Minister of Gujarat, Vijay Rupani on Friday sought to know why Congress leader Ahmed Patel appointed an Islamic State sympathiser in a hospital. Rupani alleged that one of the two ISIS sympathisers arrested by the Gujarat ATS was employed at a hospital in Bharuch that Patel was associated with.

"Congress must come clean on this issue or else the blot on them will be larger than that for corruption..Instead of taking action,Congress is busy in accusing BJP of politicising the issue. This makes Ahmed Patel even more questionable," Naqvi said. While rubbishing the allegation, Patel had asked Rupani not to politicise matters of national security for the sake of elections.

Mohmamad Kasis Stimberwala and Ubed Ahmed Mirza, reportedly a lawyer, were arrested on Wednesday and booked for criminal conspiracy, waging or attempt to wage war against the government of India. Rupani also asked how Stimberwala resigned just two days before his arrest. Patel was a trustee of the hospital, and after resigning in 2014, he invited then-president Pranab Mukherjee and shared the stage with him at a function, Rupani further added.