Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, July 21: As many as 75 Congress members, including the leader of the opposition in the Rajya Sabha, Mallikarjun Kharge, and a number of supporters were taken into custody by the Delhi Police on Thursday for holding protests against the Enforcement Directorate’s (ED) interrogation of Sonia Gandhi, the party’s acting president, regarding the National Herald case.
P Chidambaram, Ajay Maken, Manickam Tagore, KC Venugopal, Adhir Ranjan Chaudhry, Shashi Tharoor, Sachin Pilot, Harish Rawat, Ashok Gehlot, K Suresh, and other senior Congress leaders are among those being held.
About 75 Congress MPs were transported by Delhi Police in buses as they made their way from Parliament to Congress headquarters.
Following the rally, Congress workers in Nagpur were also detained.
In the national capital, Sonia Gandhi is currently being questioned by ED officers. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the interim president of the Congress, and she arrived at the ED office in the capital. Rahul Gandhi, the head of the Congress, also appeared at the ED office.
“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,” said party leader Jairam Ramesh.
Mallikarjun Kharge, the leader of the protesting Congress party, claimed that the BJP was abusing the investigation agencies by ordering them to target opposition figures, displaying its haughtiness.
“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,” he said.
