NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate summons to Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi in the National Herald case have been dubbed "politics of revenge" by the Congress.
"This is a politics of vendetta and payback by the BJP to attack opposition politicians as they have done to other opponents in the country," Congress leaders Randeep Singh Surjewala and Abbishek Manu Singhvi said during a press conference on Wednesday. The leaders of the Congress have stated that there is no case to be established and that the only objective is "malafide."
The case was ended in 2015, according to Congress sources, because there was no money involved. Randeep Singh Surjewala, the Congress's General Secretary said, "National Herald newspaper was started in 1942. The British attempted to close it at the time, and today Modi government is also doing the same thing as the Britishers did.
This is now accomplished through the use of the ED. Our president, Sonia Gandhi, and past president, Rahul Gandhi, have received notice from the Enforcement Directorate." Sonia Gandhi and her son, MP Rahul Gandhi, were summoned by the ED on Wednesday to participate in a money-laundering inquiry involving the National Herald. On June 8, both will have to appear before the investigation agency to give their statements. Several Congress officials, including the Gandhis, have been charged with misappropriating funds from the National Herald.
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