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The Enforcement Directorate has summoned interim Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her MP son Rahul Gandhi for questioning in a money laundering case linked to the National Herald newspaper, officials said.
As per PTI report, While Sonia Gandhi, 75, has been asked to depose before the federal agency on June 8, Rahul Gandhi is understood to have been asked to appear earlier. Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi said at a press conference that the senior Gandhi will comply with the summons.
Addressing a press conference on the issue, Congress leaders Randeep Singh Surjewala and Abbishek Manu Singhvi said, “This is a politics of vendetta and revenge by the BJP to target opposition leaders as they have done to other opponents in the country.”
“Rahul Gandhi will go if he is here or he may seek a fresh date,” Singhvi added.
The case to probe alleged financial irregularities in the party-promoted Young Indian that owns the National Herald newspaper was registered recently.
The agency, officials said, wants to record the statements of Sonia and Rahul Gandhi under criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
The National Herald is published by Associated Journals Limited (AJL) and owned by Young Indian Pvt Limited.
The agency recently questioned senior Congress leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Pawan Bansal as part of the investigation.
Reacting to the ED move, Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala slammed the Modi government saying, Started the National Herald newspaper in 1942, at that time the British tried to suppress it, today Modi govt is also doing the same and ED is being used for this. ED has given notice to our president Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi
