ED Sends Notice To Sonia and Rahul Gandhi In The National Herald Case, Congress Says “Will Not Bow Down”

New Delhi, 1st June 2022: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi and party MP Rahul Gandhi on June 8 in connection with the National Herald case. The case was closed by the investigating agency in 2015.

Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala has targeted the BJP over this. He said that the National Herald newspaper was started in 1942. At that time the British tried to suppress it. Today the Modi government is also doing the same and ED is being used for this. ED has given notice to our president Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.

On Wednesday, while addressing a press conference, Randeep Singh Surjewala and Abhishek Manu Singhvi said, “Sending ED summons to Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi is vendetta and vendetta politics by the BJP to target opposition leaders as they have attacked the country.”

Congress leaders said no case was made out for it and its sole intention was “malicious”. The case was closed in 2015.

The case was registered recently to probe alleged financial irregularities in the party-promoted Young Indian, which owns the National Herald newspaper.

Officials said the agency wants to record the statements of Sonia and Rahul Gandhi under criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA). National Herald is published by Associated Journals Limited (AJL) and is owned by Young Indian Private Limited. As part of the investigation, the agency had recently questioned senior Congress leaders Mallikarjun Kharge and Pawan Bansal.

A tweet has been made from the official account of Congress on the notice of ED which reads, “When the Congress is not afraid of the atrocities of the British rule, then how much will the ED notice break the courage of Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and the Congress party. We will fight…we will win…we will not bow down…we will not be afraid.”