“Only Crime Sanjay Raut Committed…”: Congress Rallies Around Sena Leader

New Delhi:

A day after Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut was raided and later arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) within the Patra Chawl land rip-off, Congress leaders condemned the probe company’s motion in opposition to him and accused the BJP of pursuing “politics of intimidation”.

Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury prolonged his help to Sanjay Raut and referred to as him a “man of conviction and braveness”.

“The one crime SanjayRaut has dedicated is that he has not been cowered down by the politics of intimidation of the BJP occasion. He’s a person of conviction and braveness. We’re with Sanjay Raut,” he tweeted.

The one crime #SanjayRaut has dedicated that he has not been cowered down by the politics of intimidation of the BJP occasion. He’s a person of conviction and braveness. We’re with Sanjay Raut.

— Adhir Chowdhury (@adhirrcinc) August 1, 2022

Reacting to Mr Raut’s arrest, senior Congress chief Shashi Tharoor mentioned his occasion is worried in regards to the misuse of central businesses to selectively goal the opposition leaders.

“Authorities establishments will not be there to serve political function,” Mr Tharoor asserted. 

Chief of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge mentioned that the motion was taken in opposition to Mr Raut as a result of the BJP needs to do away with the opposition.

“The BJP needs an opposition-mukt Parliament, that is why the motion in opposition to Sanjay Raut,” Mr Kharge was quoted as saying by information company ANI.    

“Sanjay Raut runs a celebration and a newspaper and if from his residence Rs 11 lakh have been discovered then ED has made a case in opposition to him on the premise of it, he’s being harassed,” Mr Kharge mentioned.

ED officers had searched Mr Raut’s residence for essentially the most a part of Sunday after he refused to look for questioning regardless of being summoned twice.

He was then taken to the ED’s zonal workplace in south Mumbai’s Ballard Property. 

The Rajya Sabha MP was then arrested at midnight after hours of questioning below the Prevention of Cash Laundering Act (PMLA).

Earlier than coming into the ED workplace, Mr Raut had claimed that the federal company’s motion was aimed toward making an attempt to weaken the Shiv Sena and {that a} “false” case was ready in opposition to him.