New Delhi, July 21
On the day when Congress president Sonia Gandhi has to appear before the Enforcement Directorate, the opposition party launched an all-out attack on the government and Prime Minister Narendra Modi slamming them for being intolerant and using agencies as political tools to topple elected governments and harass political opponents.
Briefing media on Thursday morning at AICC headquarters, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said he condemned the ED’s act of summoning Sonia Gandhi, which is neither good under the law nor in terms of decency, as no case could be made out under the Prevention of Money laundering Act (PMLA) in the National Herald matter.
He, however, said, “If at all she needed to be questioned for clarification, the ED officials should have gone to her residence and recorded her statement, as that would have been a decent way of doing it. But the intention is to harass and not to investigate.”
Even joint opposition Presidential candidate Yashwant Sinha in a tweet said, “I strongly condemn the attitude of ED to humiliate political leaders. The officers of the ED should have gone to her residence even if they had questions to ask of Sonia Gandhi.”
