ED should live telecast Sonia Gandhi’s interrogation in the National Herald case: Bhupesh Baghel

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• Jul 22, 2022 | Dhupali Das

The federal investigation agency questioned the Congress president for more than two hours and was called again on July 25....

Digital Desk: Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel asked the BJP government at the Centre to install cameras and live telecast the questioning of Congress president Sonia Gandhi in the National Herald money laundering case.

Criticizing the BJP for misusing central agencies against opposition parties, Baghel said that if the BJP had courage, it should put cameras and live stream Sonia Gandhi’s interrogation. 

“They (ED) should put cameras in the room where they were questioning Sonia Gandhi and give links to all news channels, or allow news networks’ cameras inside the room. The country wants to know Gandhi’s answers to their inquiries,” Baghel said while protesting along with Congress workers in front of the ED office in Chhattisgarh’s capital Raipur.

“Let the ED put cameras at the location where Sonia Gandhi is being interrogated if the BJP government at the Center has courage. Do you have such bravery? The nation wants to know where the scam (in the National Herald case) occurred,” Baghel added.

Baghel criticized the Modi government for harassing a 75-year-old woman (Gandhi) by permitting the ED to summon her to its office. He said that instead of inviting Sonia Gandhi into the office, the investigation’s staff should have requested a written statement from the Congress president in light of her health.

In response to the Enforcement Directorate’s July 21 interrogation of the congress chief, congress leaders, officials, and workers organized national protests.

The federal investigation agency questioned the Congress president for more than two hours and was called again on July 25.

She was questioned by the same assistant director-level investigator who questioned Rahul Gandhi, a Congress MP, and her son in the case involving Young Indian Private Limited, the company that runs National Herald. The interrogation team included a female cop as well.