By PTI
NEW DELHI: As Congress chief Rahul Gandhi appeared earlier than the Enforcement Directorate for the second day on Tuesday, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel accused the BJP of indulging in “political vendetta” towards the opposition and claimed that circumstances are “hushed up” when an individual joins the ruling occasion.
Baghel, together with different occasion leaders, staged a dharna in entrance of the ED workplace, and was later detained by the Delhi Police, occasion leaders stated.
Talking to the media, Baghel termed the ED’s motion “malicious” and accused the BJP authorities of indulging in “political vendetta” towards the opposition. He cautioned that because the Centre continues to “perpetrate atrocities”, the protests will proceed.
“The BJP government at the Centre should tell whether any action has been taken against the leader of any pro-BJP party in the last eight years. The moment a leader joins the BJP, all the cases against that person get hushed up. The ED, CBI, IT department are used to suppress the voices of the Opposition,” Baghel alleged.
Speaking about ED’s summons to the Gandhi household, he stated, “There is no money laundering in this entire case as not a single penny has been transacted. Only a business restructure was done and equity was floated to keep the historic newspaper alive.”
Rahul Gandhi is being questioned by the ED within the National Herald money-laundering case, with the grand previous occasion calling the company motion vendetta politics of the Centre towards opposition leaders.
Several Congress leaders had been detained for violating prohibitory orders exterior the closely barricaded occasion headquarters.
The Congress has stated it is not going to be cowed down by intimidatory techniques of arrests or “false” circumstances towards its prime leaders.
