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Priyanka Gandhi Vadra being detained during a nationwide protest against unemployment Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi with KC Venugopal and Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok
and inflation in New Delhi on Friday (ANI Photo/Ayush Sharma) Gehlot speaks during a press conference on Friday (ANI Photo/Shrikant Singh)

witnessed in the Lok Sabha where forcement Directorate is questioning Centre, Union Minister of Parliamen- said that the “Indian National Con-
Congress leaders led by Sonia Gand- Congress president Sonia Gandhi and tary Affairs, Pralhad Joshi on Friday gress is under siege” and that the Delhi
hi had dressed in black as a mark of MP Rahul Gandhi over a case linked called the Congress leader a “fake Police has surrounded the party head-
protest. The Lok Sabha was also ad- to the National Herald newspaper. Gandhi” whose ideology, he claimed, quarters and homes of interim party
journed till 2 pm following an uproar. The Enforcement Directorate was “fake” as well. chief Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.
Prior to this adjournment, the Com- also arrested Sanjay Raut just after Earlier, at a press conference in Attacking the Modi government
petition (Amendment) Bill, 2022 and midnight of August 1 in a case linked the national capital, Rahul Gandhi for vendetta politics, he alleged in a
the New Delhi International Arbitra- to alleged financial irregularities in said, “Why do they attack the Gand- tweet, “this is the worst form of ven-
tion Centre (Amendment) Bill, 2022 the redevelopment of a chawl. Also, hi family? They do it because we fight detta politics. We will not submit! We
were introduced in the Lok Sabha. last month, the Enforcement Direc- for an ideology and there are crores will not be silenced! We will continue
Congress has been continuously torate recovered over 50 crores in of people like us. We fight for democ- to raise our voice against injustices
raising questions against the price rise cash and unaccounted assets from racy, for communal harmony and we and failures of Modi Sarkar!”
and the hike in the Goods and Service premises linked to now-suspended have been doing this for years. It’s not Cornered and powerless, the
Tax (GST). Congress MPs have been TMC leader and West Bengal Minis- just me who did that, it has been hap- Congress party has decided to hit
staging protests both inside and out- ter Partha Chatterjee. pening for years.” back at the government. This is a
side Parliament on these issues. The In one of the sharpest attacks on Earlier on Wednesday, Congress risky strategy but it may work in the
protests come at a time when the En- Rahul Gandhi by the ruling BJP at the MP Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday long run.

10 high-profile ED cases of 2022 that made headlines

1. SONIA GANDHI AND RAHUL GANDHI NATIONAL HERALD CASE under provisions of PMLA by the ED in May this year after CBI registered
an FIR against him in a Disproportionate Asset case on August 24, 2017.
The ED carried out raids at 12 locations in the national capital and at
other places on August 2 in connection with the National Herald case in 6. KARTI CHIDAMBARAM IN CHINESE VISA CASE
which Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi, party leader Rahul Gandhi The Enforcement Directorate has booked Congress MP Karti Chidam-
and others are accused of financial irregularities.
baram in a money laundering case connected with the Chinese Visa case.
2. BHUPINDER SINGH HONEY IN SAND MINING CASE
7. SANJAY RAUT IN PATRA CHAWL SCAM
The ED conducted raids on the premises of property owned by former
Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut is currently in ED custody in a money laun-
Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi’s nephew Bhupinder Singh Honey in an dering case related to irregularities in connection with the Patra Chawl case.
alleged illegal sand mining case.
8. YES BANK- DHFL FRAUD CASE
3. IAS POOJA SINGHAL IN JHARKHAND MINING CASE
The Enforcement Directorate has attached assets totalling Rs 415 crore
IAS officer Pooja Singhal, an aide of Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren was
raided in a money laundering case linked to the alleged embezzlement of in Yes Bank- DHFL Fraud case.
MGNREGA funds in state’s Khunti and Chatra districts. 9. NAWAB MALIK

4. PARTHA CHATTERJEE AND ARPITA MUKHERJEE IN SSC RECRUITMENT SCAM Former Maharashtra Minister and Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)
leader Nawab Malik has had links with fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim’s
The ED, last month, recovered around Rs 50 crore in cash, along with
jewellery, from former Bengal minister Partha Chatterjee’s associate Arpita D-company for a long time, according to the investigation of the Enforce-
ment Directorate against him in connection with a money laundering case.
Mukherjee’s residence--one in southwest Kolkata and other in Belghoria
while investigating the West Bengal SSC recruitment scam. 10. FAROOQ ABDULLAH

5. SATYENDAR JAIN IN MONEY LAUNDERING CASE The Enforcement Directorate filed a supplementary chargesheet against
former J-K Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah in the Jammu and Kashmir
AAP leader and Delhi’s Health Minister Satyendar Jain was arrested
Cricket Association Fund scam.

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