Congress Workers staged a mega protest against the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in connection with its chargesheet against Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi in the National Herald Case. The opposition party alleged ‘’political vendetta’’ by the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. The ED has filed a chargesheet against Congress parliamentary party chairperson Sonia Gandhi, leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and other before a special court in the National Herald case, accusing them of allegedly laundering Rs988 crore.
Hundreds of BJP activists and leaders, including MLAs Yudhvir Sethi and Arvind Gupta, assembled at the Kachi Chawani Chowk and held a protest march against the congress. They raised slogans against Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. ‘’This is the final nail in the coffin of the Congress, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. The protests by the Congress and allegations of Vendetta Politics are baseless given their involvement in the misappropriation of public properties allocated to the National Herald newspaper. They will be behind bars, The Congress party has been using National Herald as a money-minting machine, through which it has sucked blood of crores of poor people,’’ MLA Sethi said.
Jammu West MLA Arvind Gupta said ‘’Based on available evidence, the ED has implicated Congress leaders, which is now making desperate attempts to influence the outcome’’. BJP Leaders and Former Minister Priya Sethi slammed the congress leaders for keeping their ‘’selfish interests above the nation’’. She accused them of backstabbing the nation and its people.