After the names of Congress President Sonia Gandhi and former President Rahul Gandhi appeared in the new FIR of Delhi Police in the National Herald money laundering case, Congress has launched a scathing attack on the Central Government and government agencies.
Senior Congress MP KC Venugopal alleged that agencies like ED, CBI and Election Commission are being used to ‘completely destroy democracy’ and target the opposition.
Congress counterattacks on FIR
On Sunday, the Economic Offenses Wing of Delhi Police has registered a new FIR against several people including Sonia and Rahul Gandhi on charges of criminal conspiracy. Responding to this, KC Venugopal said, ‘It is very clear that agencies like ED and CBI are being used to target Congress and the opposition. No matter how many cases they register, it doesn’t matter to us.
Venugopal said that earlier also Rahul Gandhi was disqualified from the Lok Sabha on the basis of a case. He stressed, ‘These cases cannot scare us.’ He said, ‘Indian democracy is going through a serious crisis. Anyone across the country who has started thinking independently can see this clearly.
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Serious allegations against the Election Commission also
Venugopal also raised serious questions on the ongoing Special Intensive Revision Program to ‘clean’ the voter list. He alleged that the real objective of SIR is not to clean the voter list, but to ‘influence voter behaviour’ and ‘target and delete votes’.
He also accused the ruling CPI(M) in Kerala of using it to their advantage and trying to remove votes from those they do not like.
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Who are the accused in the FIR?
In the new FIR of Delhi Police, it has been alleged that the National Herald newspaper’s parent company Associated Journals Limited (AJL) was fraudulently taken over as part of a criminal conspiracy.
Apart from Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi, Sam Pitroda, Suman Dubey, Sunil Bhandari and an unknown person are named in the FIR. Additionally, three companies, AJL, Young Indian and Dotex Merchandise Pvt Ltd, have also been named as accused.