In the midst of demonstrations protesting the ED’s summons of Sonia Gandhi in an alleged money laundering case, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was taken into custody by the Delhi Police. Additional party leaders have also been held, including Mallikarjun Kharge, Ranjeet Ranjan, KC Venugopal, Manickam Tagore, Imran Pratapgarhi, and K Suresh. Amrutha Guguloth, DCP (New Delhi), reported that the leaders had been transported to Kingsway Camp.
Rahul criticized the central administration, calling it a “dictatorship,” and said that they were denied access to the Parliament and that protest leaders had been detained. Rahul continued to address the media by saying, “India is a police state, and Modi is a monarch.”
Tuesday, Sonia Gandhi arrived at the ED headquarters in New Delhi for a second round of interrogation regarding the money laundering case involving the National Herald. Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi were with her. Sonia left the ED office for lunch after roughly 2.5 hours of questioning. The agency’s case is founded on a trial court judgment that gave the Income Tax Department permission to investigate the activities of the National Herald newspaper and evaluate Sonia and Rahul Gandhi’s taxes. The decision followed a 2013 petition from BJP MP Subramanian Swamy, who claimed that the Gandhis had purchased the newspaper through deception and financial misappropriation.
At the Haryana Congress bhawan in Chandigarh’s Sector 9 on Tuesday, leaders and supporters of the Haryana Congress organized a “satyagraha” against the BJP and the ED.
