CONGRESS TO GHERAO RAJ BHAVANS TODAY
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has been summoned again on Friday by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case linked to the National Herald newspaper. He has been questioned for nearly 30 hours since Monday, the first day of questioning.
Gandhi was Wednesday questioned by the ED for the third straight day for about eight hours. The agency is seeking answers about his “personal role” in taking decisions with regard to the media organisation and its owner Young Indian.
Meanwhile, amid the Congress’ protest against the BJP and Enforcement Directorate for “implicating” Rahul Gandhi in a money laundering case, senior Congress leaders Wednesday alleged that the Delhi Police forcibly entered the AICC Headquarters in New Delhi and thrashed the party workers.
Several Congress members alleged they were not allowed to reach the office and participate in the protest. “They entered the Congress office and detained and manhandled workers and leaders… Democracy has been crushed under bulldozer,” Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said.
Surjewala condemned the incident and demanded an FIR against guilty police officials and their suspension.
“Today, Delhi Police forcibly entered the HQ of India’s oldest political party. As they burst the doors open to the AICC HQ, they trampled upon the democracy our forefathers fought and gave their lives for. BJP has truly killed Indian democracy. It doesn’t get darker than this,” Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal said in a tweet.
Delhi Police DCP Amrutha Guguloth has denied entering the party office premises. “No such incident took place,” the DCP said in response to queries on the incident.
In the past two days, the Delhi Police detained over 250-450 Congress leaders and workers for illegal assembly and violating police orders. Section 144 CrPC has been imposed in the area.
Protest outside Raj Bhavans: The Congress will protest outside Governor Houses across the country on Thursday against the police action and on Friday, protests will be staged at every district headquarter.
Surjewala said, “We will hold a protest against the Central government tomorrow (June 16) and gherao all the Raj Bhavans across the nation. The demonstration will take place at all the district headquarters on June 17. Truth can’t be suppressed”.
Cong writes to Speaker: Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury wrote a letter to Lok Sabha speaker, Om Birla, seeking intervention over the ED questioning of Rahul Gandhi.
Chowdhury in the letter said Rahul Gandhi is being “grilled on an average 10 to 11 hours per day on the pretext of examination on some wild allegations.” He added that “this kind of inhuman treatment with a Member of Parliament smacks of a heinous conspiracy to settle political scores.”
