Sonia Gandhi may not appear before ED today: Sources
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- Sonia Gandhi may not appear before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) today.
- He has sought more time from the agency as he has not tested Covid-19 negative.
- He had tested Covid positive on June 2.
Congress President Sonia Gandhi cannot appear before the Enforcement Directorate (ED) today and has sought more time from the agency as she has not tested COVID-19 negative.
Sonia, who was summoned by the ED in a case related to the National Herald newspaper, had tested for Kovid on June 2.
His son and former party chief Rahul Gandhi has been asked to appear before the law enforcement agency on June 13 as he sought relaxation at an earlier date.
The ED had summoned the Gandhi family to join the probe in a money laundering case related to the National Herald newspaper and record their statements on June 8.
A case has been registered against various Congress leaders, including the Gandhi family, for allegedly misappropriating the National Herald Fund.
Terming the ED summons as “politics of revenge”, Congress leader Randeep Singh Surjewala had said: “It is politics of vendetta and revenge by the BJP to target opposition leaders as they have done with other opponents of the country.” .
“National Herald newspaper was started in 1942. At that time British tried to shut it down, today Modi government is also doing the same thing which British did. Now ED is being used for this purpose. ..”
Since there is no money involved in the case, Congress sources say that the case was closed in 2015.
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