According to sources, Rahul Gandhi is currently on a foreign tour and is expected to arrive in the country on June 5. Rahul Gandhi was asked to appear before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for questioning in a money laundering case linked to the National Herald newspaper a day after Congress president Sonia Gandhi and senior leader Rahul Gandhi were asked to appear before the ED for questioning in a money laundering case linked to the National Herald newspaper.
On anonymity, sources inside the Congress party informed ANI that “Rahul Gandhi departed the country on May 19 to attend a series of public events in London from May 20 to May 23. He has not returned to India since then.”
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“Rahul Gandhi is scheduled to return home by June 5,” according to sources, “after which he would request another date from the ED for interrogation in a money laundering case.”
In an official notice, the ED has invited Sonia to appear before the agency on June 8, while Rahul, who is not in town, was asked to join the investigations on June 2. Still, the former Congress president requested a date after June 5 since he is not in the country, according to party sources.
“How can the ED notifications break the bravery of Sonia Gandhiji, Rahul Gandhiji, and the Congress party when they were not afraid of the British and their atrocities? We will fight…we will win…we will not submit…we will not be intimidated, “Congress sent out a tweet from its official account.
Meanwhile, top Congress leaders met and reviewed the approaching Rajya Sabha elections. “Rahul Gandhi took part in these meetings,” a party leader informed ANI anonymously.
“Both leaders will stand in front of the ED, and we will confront them. Such methods do not frighten, overawe, or intimidate us in the least “In a news conference on Wednesday, senior party spokesman Abhishek Manu Singhvi and chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala slammed the Narendra Modi government.
Mr Singhvi said that the matter is politically motivated and not worth further investigation.
Mr Surjewala and Mr Singhvi affirmed that the Gandhis would cooperate with the investigation if the ED requests them.
The National Herald, according to Mr Singhvi, is published by Associated Journals Ltd, which had amassed debts, after which Congress put in roughly 90 crores over decades. “Every corporation, whether in India or overseas, does what AJL did. It was able to turn its debt into stock. A new firm called Young India was given 90 crores in store, “he said
Young India, in which Sonia, Rahul, and other Congress officials had stakes, was registered as a not-for-profit organization. The AJL became debt-free due to the deal, Mr Singhvi added.
“There was no transfer of even a little piece of property, much alone money. So, where does money laundering take place? What happened to the money? Exchanged no money … Nonetheless, a money laundering case was reported. Young India cannot utilize the funds it receives since it cannot pay dividends or generate profit, “Mr Singhvi said.
