Adhir Ranjan Seeks Om Birla’s Intervention Over Rahul’s ED Questioning

Mumbai: Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury wrote a letter to LS Speaker Om Birla seeking his intervention over the questioning of Rahul Gandhi by ED. Adhir Ranjan alleged that “inhuman treatment” with an MP smacks of a “heinous conspiracy” to settle a political score.

Gandhi appeared before the ED on Wednesday for the third consecutive day of questioning in the National Herald money laundering case, with the agency seeking answers about his “personal role” in decision-making in relation to the media outfit and its owner Young Indian.

In a letter to Birla, Choudhary said, “I, along with my colleagues, complain about a heavy heart that our respected colleague Rahul Gandhi ji has been subjected to inexplicable pain by the Enforcement Directorate for three consecutive days. In Delhi in India, he is grilled for an average of 10 to 11 hours on the pretext of exams for one reason or the other.

“We all regard you as our custodian and hence seek your intervention into the humiliation being meted out to Rahul Gandhi,” Chowdhury said in his letter to Birla.

Top Congress leaders have been protesting after the Wayanad MP was called for questioning by the ED for the past three days.

Gandhi was questioned by the ED for nearly eight hours today and his statement was recorded over several sessions under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA).

The agency has called him for the fourth day on June 17 as he had sought exemption on Thursday.

The big old party has termed the agency’s action as a politics of vendetta by the Center against the opposition leaders. Around 800 senior Congress leaders and workers have been detained since Monday for protesting the questioning of Rahul Gandhi in violation of prohibitory orders and despite being denied permission.

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