NEW DELHI: With the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) making it clear that it will target Sonia Gandhi in Parliament over alleged corruption in a deal to buy 12 helicopters for use by top politicians, Congress Party has decided to retaliate with equal aggression, NDTV reports.

Aggressive Gandhi spoke to the Parliament on Wednesday, saying “I have done nothing wrong. The government is there for two years, an inquiry is there. Why don’t they complete it as early as possible... and impartially?“

“Let them hang me if there is an iota of evidence,” said her aide Ahmed Patel.

The helicopters are manufactured by AgustaWestland, whose parent company is Italian; its top executives were investigated for corruption in Italy.

The Rs. 3,600-crore agreement for a dozen choppers was canceled by India in 2014 after the Italians began investigating it, a point the Congress is flashing in its defense along with the fact that AgustaWestland has not been banned by the new government from bidding for new defense deals.

Documents related to the negotiations and reviewed by the Italian court refer to “Signora Gandhi” as “the driving force” in seeking the new helicopters and mention her advisers including Mr.Patel and then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

The BJP says this proves that Gandhi and her party’s top leaders were involved in kickbacks.