Day 2 Of Rahul Gandhi’s Questioning, Protests, Detentions: 10 Points

Rahul Gandhi reached the ED workplace for the second day of questioning. He was earlier on the Congress get together workplace together with sister and get together common secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra amid supportive sloganeering by get together employees. A number of senior leaders, together with KC Venugopal who was manhandled by the police yesterday, had additionally accompanied Mr Gandhi on the get together workplace.

Mr Gandhi arrived on the Enforcement Directorate (ED) headquarters on APJ Abdul Kalam Street in central Delhi along with his “Z+” class CRPF safety escort whilst police personnel had been deployed in large numbers and part 144 of the Code of Legal Process (CrPC) was imposed across the company’s workplace identical to Monday.

Prime Congress leaders like Harish Rawat and Randeep Singh Surjewala had been detained from exterior the Congress workplace as they tried marching to the ED’s workplace. Many employees have additionally been detained. Visuals present a few of them being dragged on the street by the police. Police and paramilitary forces have been deployed in giant numbers across the get together’s important Delhi workplace. A number of barricades have been positioned to stop motion in direction of the grand previous get together’s Akbar street workplace. 

Part 144, which prohibits the meeting of individuals in giant teams, was invoked round the get together workplace space as properly. Congress legislators declare they had been going to the get together workplace in separate autos, which doesn’t violate the foundations, however had been anyway stopped and detained. 

Earlier within the day, Congress get together employees and senior leaders had been seen in bodily altercations with the police and safety forces as they had been stopped from getting into the cordoned-off space. A number of get together employees and even a couple of MPs had been detained as they tried to achieve the get together workplace. 

Rahul Gandhi was questioned for greater than ten hours yesterday in an alleged cash laundering case related to the Nationwide Herald newspaper. 

The particular person being interrogated is given a set of questions and requested to write down down the solutions in their very own handwriting. Sources say Mr Gandhi was requested round 25 questions yesterday and is anticipated to spend an extended day on the probe company’s workplace once more. Not like with the police, statements made to an ED officer are admissible in courtroom. 

The Congress once more slammed the BJP-led Centre and accused it of using the probe agency as an “election management department” which it claimed has lodged over 5,000 circumstances to intimidate political adversaries. The circumstances vanish when one joins the BJP, the get together alleged.

Rahul Gandhi requested powerful questions of the Centre on the Chinese language encroachment, rising inflation, dealing with of the pandemic, the migrant employees’ plight throughout lockdowns, farmers’ protests and “communal unrest being fanned by the BJP”, senior Congress chief Randeep Singh Surjewala stated, claiming that the federal government fears Mr Gandhi and that is the one cause it’s ‘targetting’ him.

The Congress has alleged that the questioning is a part of the ruling  BJP’s “vendetta politics”. Responding to the protests, Union Minister Smriti Irani had stated the get together was making an attempt to pressurise the probe company and the protest was to not save democracy however to save lots of Rahul Gandhi’s properties price Rs 2,000 crore.