75 protesting Cong MPs detained as ED quizzes Sonia Gandhi
New Delhi [India], July 21: Amid the protest by top Congress leaders over protest against Enforcement Directorate (ED) for questioning Sonia Gandhi in National Herald case, Congress MPs and leaders including Mallikarjun Kharge, Shashi Tharoor and several others 75 detained by the Delhi Police.
The Senior Congress leaders detained includes P Chidambaram, Ajay Maken, Manickam Tagore, KC Venugopal, Adhir Ranjan Chaudhry, Shashi Tharoor, Sachin Pilot, Harish Rawat. Ashok Gehlot, K Suresh and others.
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75 MPs were taken by Delhi Police in buses.
Congress workers in Nagpur were also detained in the wake of the protest.
Meanwhile, Sonia Gandhi is being quizzed by the ED officials in the national capital on Thursday.
Congress interim president has been accompanied by her daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Rahul Gandhi to the ED office.
Party leader Jairam Ramesh said that, "All Congress MPs and CWC Members have courted mass arrest outside our Party HQs in a show of collective solidarity with Congress President Sonia Gandhi, a target of Vishguru's political vendetta. We are being taken away to a police station in Old Delhi evidently.”
Protesting Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge said that the ruling party (BJP) is showing its highhandedness by misusing the probe agencies by asking them to target opposition leaders.
"They (ruling party) want to show how powerful they are. We've raised the issue of inflation in Parliament but they're not ready for discussion. We are now raising the issue of misuse of central probe agencies," Kharge.
Meanwhile, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, who is also in Delhi slammed the probe and said that since Sonia Gandhi is over 70 years old, ED should have gone to her house for investigation.
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The ED had on June 1 summoned Sonia Gandhi to appear before its investigators on June 8 in the case for the first time in connection with a money laundering case involving the National Herald.
The ED wants to record both Sonia Gandhi's statements under criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).
-PTC News
