Sonia Gandhi will be in ED office today, Congress Plans Protests

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• Jul 21, 2022 | Guriya Khatun

This is the first time that any federal investigation agency will question the President of Congress.

Digital Desk: Congress President Sonia Gandhi will appear before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) today (Thursday) in connection with the National Herald case.

Sonia Gandhi's written plea for a postponement of her summons following a positive COVID test had already been granted by the ED.

Moreover, at around 11 a.m., she will leave the Congress headquarters for the ED office.

This is the first time that any federal investigation agency will question the President of Congress.

In the past, Rahul Gandhi was questioned by the ED for more than 50 hours over the course of five days in the agency's Delhi headquarters.

Workers for the Congress party have planned a national protest against Sonia Gandhi's grilling by the ED. The party's outrage over the government's "misusing" of federal agencies to assassinate opposition leaders is expected to be expressed. Congress has instructed its state branches to protest where they are located.

A meeting was conducted on Wednesday at the home of the opposition leader, Mallikarjun Kharge, to discuss and decide on the plan for today. Everyone in the meeting, according to Rajasthan's chief minister, Ashok Gehlot, expressed anger about the opposition's voice being silenced. Gehlot declared that Congress would all support Sonia Gandhi.

At the Congress headquarters on Akbar Road, where Sonia Gandhi will depart for the ED office, party supporters will congregate. A briefing will be conducted by Ashok Gehlot and the party's media and publicity chairman, Pawan Khera.

How can the ED frightens Sonia Gandhi, whose ancestors altered the world's geography, was the message tweeted on Wednesday by the INC's official Twitter account.

Subramanian Swamy, a BJP leader and attorney, filed a complaint with a trial court in 2012 saying that several Congressmen had engaged in fraud and breach of trust in the purchase of Associated Journals Ltd. by Young Indian Ltd. (YIL). He claimed that YIL had "maliciously taken over" the National Herald's assets.

Jawaharlal Nehru and fellow independence activists established the National Herald newspaper in 1938.

In order to make money and acquire assets worth more than Rs 2,000 crore, according to Subramanian Swamy, YIL "took over" the assets of the failed print media business in a "malicious" manner.

The Enforcement Directorate initiated an investigation in 2014 to determine whether money laundering occurred in the situation. The Enforcement Directorate reportedly reopened its probe into the National Herald case on September 18, 2015.