With Sonia Gandhi set to appear before ED for questioning, Congress to stage protests

New Delhi: The Congress will maintain protests throughout the nation in opposition to the questioning of its chief Sonia Gandhi by the Enforcement Directorate on Thursday, the opposition get together stated whereas slamming the company’s motion in opposition to its high management as “political vendetta”. The Congress president is about to look earlier than the ED on Thursday in a cash laundering case associated to the Nationwide Herald-AJL case and high Congress leaders will converge on the AICC headquarters for the protests.

Comparable protests had been held when her son and former get together president Rahul Gandhi was quizzed by the company in June within the case.

Sources stated get together leaders together with MPs will march in the direction of the Enforcement Directorate workplace and the Delhi Congress will stage a protest march outdoors Raj Bhawan right here.

A gathering of senior get together leaders was held on the residence of Mallikarjun Kharge to chalk out the get together’s technique for coping with the “misuse” of the ED in opposition to get together chief Sonia Gandhi by the Modi authorities, they stated.

”’Your complete Congress household is standing firmly with its President Sonia Gandhi and tomorrow a protest in opposition to the dictatorial rule of BJP will probably be lodged in the entire nation,” the get together stated on its Twitter deal with.

Congress leaders and employees may also be staging such protests outdoors workplaces of the Enforcement Directorate in several state capitals, they stated.

Within the nationwide capital, sources stated, the Congress may stage a protest together with leaders of different opposition events contained in the Parliament complicated. Congress members in each homes may protest inside each homes of Parliament.

Congress common secretary Jairam Ramesh stated the whole Congress get together will display throughout the nation in “a most telling method” in opposition to what he described as political vendetta.

“Tomorrow because the political vendetta unleashed by the Modi-Shah duo in opposition to our high management continues, the whole Congress get together throughout the nation will display its collective solidarity with Smt. Sonia Gandhi in a most telling method,” Ramesh stated on Twitter.

Congress leaders and employees, together with get together MPs, had protested and courted arrest when Rahul Gandhi appeared earlier than the ED in the identical case and was questioned for a number of days.

Another Congress leaders together with Mallikarjun Kharge have additionally appeared earlier than the probe company earlier, in the identical case.

Congress chief Pawan Khera alleged that the Modi authorities was misusing probe businesses for political functions and had “created a practice of focusing on our high management”.

“We are going to oppose in any respect ranges, inside and outdoors Parliament in opposition to this type of ‘vendetta politics’ unleashed by the Modi-Shah duo. Protests in opposition to this type of soiled politics will probably be performed all around the nation,” stated Khera.

The police have already put up barricades across the Congress workplace on Akbar Street anticipating a repeat of the protests.

The final time when Rahul Gandhi was questioned, the police had made elaborate preparations. A lot of get together leaders had been detained and brought to far-off places and had been launched solely at midnight.

Congress MPs had raised robust objections and complained to the President in addition to the Vice President and Lok Sabha Speaker in opposition to the police’s alleged “high-handedness”.