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NEW DELHI: The questioning of Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi in connection with the alleged money laundering case involving the National Herald being probed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) ended on Wednesday.
According to ED sources, all the important aspects of the case have been covered. Sources also said that the agency has not summoned Sonia Gandhi for questioning again. “The agency may call Sonia Gandhi if it feels that it requires more information,” the source said.
Sonia Gandhi was questioned by the financial probe agency for a second consecutive day. Accompanied by her son and former party chief Rahul Gandhi and her daughter and party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Sonia Gandhi arrived at the ED office at around 11.10 am. She left the ED headquarters around 2.15 pm with her daughter.
On Tuesday, Sonia Gandhi was questioned for over 6 hours while on July 21 she was questioned for two and half hours. To date, ED has questioned Sonia Gandhi for over 11.5 hours.
Reliable sources in ED said that Sonia Gandhi was asked whether she was aware of the formation of Young Indian Private Limited (YIPL), whether she attended the meeting of YIPL, did she knew about financial transactions and if any meetings of the YIPL at her residence.
The source also said that Sonia Gandhi had told the investigators that she didn’t know any financial transactions as it was all taken by senior party leader Motilal Vora.
Earlier, the ED had questioned Rahul Gandhi for over 54 hours in five days in June this year.
प्रधानमंत्री जी, ये सांसद जनता द्वारा चुनकर भेजे गए हैं। महंगाई, बेरोजगारी के मुद्दों पर सवाल जनता के सवाल हैं।
सवाल पूछने पर महिला सांसदों के कपड़े फाड़ना, उन्हें घसीटना हद दर्जे की क्रूरता है। लोकतंत्र में आपको मुद्दों पर सवाल तो सुनने पड़ेंगे। सवालों से इतना घबराए क्यों हैं? pic.twitter.com/5I21RSpFqk
— Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) July 27, 2022
Earlier in the day, several Congress MPs were detained from Vijay Chowk when they tried to march towards Rashtrapati Bhawan from Parliament.
Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge, Congress MPs Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Manish Tewari, Gaurav Gogoi, KC Venugopal, Jairam Ramesh, Shakti Singh Goyal, Ranjeet Ranjan and Manickam Tagore among others were detained today. They were taken to Kingsway camp police line in a bus.
After the detention of party MPs, Congress general secretary and national media in-charge Jairam Ramesh has dubbed the police action as a “murder of democracy”.
After being detained, Ramesh said, “Today also our MPs have been detained. This is a murder of democracy. The Modi government is not allowing a discussion on price rise and GST on essential items. And when we are raising our voice for discussions in Parliament and the politics of vendetta, we have again been detained.”
“For the third day, Congress MPs staging legitimate and peaceful protests at Vijay Chowk have been taken away to God (and PM and HM know) alone knows where. This is Muzzling Of Democracy In India in action! (sic)” he later said in a tweet.
From the Congress headquarters, former Rajasthan deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot, former Uttarakhand chief minister Harish Rawat, senior Congress leaders Ajay Maken, Pawan Bansal and several others were also detained.
