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Congress leaders take to streets as Sonia Gandhi

is questioned by ED in National Herald case

Enforcement Directorate says it kept two doctors and an ambulance on standby as a
humanitarian gesture toward Congress leader who recently had Covid infection

OUR BUREAU office. The sources said that Sonia
Gandhi was asked over two dozen
New Delhi/Chandigarh/Jaipur
questions “after which she asked to
elhi Police on Thursday de- go home for her medication”.
tained 349 Congress function- They said ED allowed this and
Daries including 56 MPs after it will call her for interrogation again
the leaders protested in the capital on Monday.
over ED summons to the Congress Congress leader Jairam Ramesh
interim chief Sonia Gandhi. Senior said that the allegations that ED
Congress leaders including P Chid- stopped investigation as Sonia Gand-
ambaram, Ajay Maken, Manickam hi requested to leave because she is
Tagore, KC Venugopal, Adhir Ranjan suffering from COVID-19 “are base-
Chaudhry, Shashi Tharoor, Sachin less”.
Pilot, Harish Rawat, Ashok Gehlot, “Interrogation ended because
K Suresh were among those detained. ED didn’t have anything to ask. So-
Seventy-five Congress MPs in- nia Gandhi said, she’ll be present at
cluding Leader of Opposition in Ra- ED office whenever they want,” he
jya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge and said.
several workers were detained by Jairam Ramesh said Sonia
the Delhi Police for demonstrations Gandhi went to ED office and was
against the questioning of the party interrogated for two-three hours “af-
chief. ter which ED officials allowed her
Congress workers in Nagpur to leave as they didn’t have anything
were also detained in the wake of the else to ask”.
protest. The protest by the Congress “On this, Congress president re-
turned violent in Bengaluru as the plied that they can ask her as many
Youth Congress workers allegedly questions as they want,” he said. ED
set a car on fire, in front of ED of- sources countered the remarks of
fice. Congress workers also stopped the Congress leader. “Looking at the
a train and blocked railway tracks at health of Sonia Gandhi as a human-
New Delhi’s Shivaji Bridge railway Water cannons are being used on Punjab Congress supporters during a protest over the ED itarian gesture, two doctors and an
station. probe against Sonia Gandhi in Chandigarh on Thursday (ANI) ambulance were kept on standby and
Chandigarh Police also used her daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra
water cannons to disperse Congress was also allowed to be at the office of
workers and leaders as they protest- the ED,” a top ED source said.
ed over the questioning. “Even during her questioning
Party leader Jairam Ramesh which was for close to two-and-a-half
said party MPs and CWC Members hours, on two occasions her daughter
have courted mass arrest outside the Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was allowed
party’s central office in a show of col- to meet her. After asking her more
lective solidarity with Sonia Gandhi. than 12 questions once she said she
Congress leaders accused the gov- would like to go home for medica-
ernment of misusing the probe agen- tion, the agency allowed her to go
cies to target political opponents. home and in fact agreed to question
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Ge- her again on Monday,” the source
hlot, who is also in Delhi, slammed added.
the probe and said that since Sonia Last month the ED questioned
Gandhi is over 70 years old, ED Rahul Gandhi for five days in the
should have gone to her residence case. The ED had on June 1 sum-
if they wanted to question her. “It moned Sonia Gandhi to appear on
is happening for the first time in the Congress leader Rahul Gandhi accompanies Sonia Gandhi as she leaves her residence for June 8 in the case for the first time in
country that they are stopping dhar- the ED office in New Delhi on Thursday (ANI) connection with alleged money laun-
na, demonstration,” he said. dering in the National Herald case.
But the Enforcement Director- Thursday, kept two doctors and an The central agency also allowed Sonia Gandhi could not appear
ate, which questioned Sonia Gand- ambulance on standby as a human- Sonia Gandhi’s daughter and party for questioning after testing positive
hi in the National Herald case on itarian gesture, agency sources said. leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra at its for COVID-19.

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