New Delhi: The Congress Party seems to have woken up from a deep slumber after the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) notices to the party chief Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi in connection with the National Herald case. The party is all set to display its strength in Delhi on June 13 when Rahul Gandhi appears before the ED.
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All party MPs of both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha and senior leaders have been asked to reach the party headquarters on Akbar Road Monday morning, sources said on Wednesday. The party plans to take out a march to the ED office on APJ Abdul Kalam Road in support of Rahul Gandhi. The party has convened a virtual meeting with general secretaries, in-charges of various states and state unit presidents on Thursday evening to finalise the plans.
Senior party leaders said the state units should also conduct various campaigns in protest against the ED summons. The Congress has termed the charges ‘fake and baseless’ and added the summonses to Rahul Gandhi and party president Sonia Gandhi was part of the BJP’s ‘vendetta politics’.
The party had put up a similar show of strength earlier when the Gandhis appeared in a court after they were summoned in a related case. The Congress on Wednesday said its leaders Sonia Gandhi Rahul Gandhi would appear before the ED as they had nothing to hide from the probe agency, and that the BJP should learn lessons from it.
Sonia Gandhi was asked to appear before the ED on Wednesday, but she has sought time from the agency as she is recovering from the coronavirus infection. The Congress president tested positive on Thursday.
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Rahul Gandhi had earlier been summoned to appear before the agency on June 2 but he sought a fresh date as he was abroad at the time. The case pertains to the probe into the alleged financial irregularities in the party-promoted Young Indian that owns the National Herald newspaper. The paper is published by Associated Journals Limited (AJL) and owned by Young Indian Pvt Limited.
Officials said the agency wanted to record the statements of the Gandhis under criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
