Congress chief Rahul Gandhi is ready to seem earlier than the Enforcement Directorate for the fourth time right this moment in reference to the National Herald money-laundering case. After three straight days of questioning final week, the ED had allowed Gandhi’s request to defer his questioning until right this moment owing to his mom Sonia Gandhi’s hospitalisation.
Meanwhile, the Congress on Sunday mentioned lakhs of its social gathering employees will maintain peaceable protests right this moment towards the Modi authorities’s “vendetta politics” in focusing on Gandhi and the Centre’s “anti-youth” Agnipath scheme.
Congress chief Ajay Maken right this moment mentioned that the social gathering will maintain Satyagraha at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar and a celebration delegation will meet President Ram Nath Kovind at 5 pm to demand withdrawal of Agnipath scheme.
The social gathering on Sunday mentioned it can additionally deliver to the President’s discover the alleged manhandling and harassment of social gathering MPs by the Delhi Police throughout their protests towards Rahul Gandhi’s questioning by the ED within the cash laundering case.
Senior Congress leaders, together with Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, social gathering’s chief in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, P Chidambaram, Ok C Venugopal and Ramesh, are set to satisfy meet Kovind and apprise him in regards to the “unprovoked manhandling” of social gathering MPs, which it alleged was in violation of all democratic norms.
Separate delegations of Congress leaders have already met Rajya Sabha chairman and Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and have sought motion for violation of the rights of MPs and requested them to deal with the identical as privilege notices. The Congress had put up sturdy protests towards the ED’s questioning.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”