Ranchi::Following the court’s decision to dismiss the chargesheet filed by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) against Mrs. Sonia Gandhi and Mr. Rahul Gandhi in the National Herald case, the Congress party staged a strong protest against the central government and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Ranchi. The protest was led by Jharkhand Pradesh Congress Committee President Mr. Keshav Mahato Kamlesh in front of the BJP headquarters.
Prior to the protest, Congress leaders and workers gathered at Harmu Ground, from where they marched in protest and laid siege to the BJP office, raising slogans against the central government.
Addressing the gathering, Pradesh Congress President Keshav Mahato Kamlesh alleged that the Modi government had misused central investigative agencies to an extreme extent, even without the registration of an FIR. He said the central government attempted to fabricate false cases against Mrs. Sonia Gandhi and Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi through the ED in order to malign them and the Congress party. However, the court dismissed the chargesheet, thereby upholding the dignity of the Constitution and the judiciary.
He further stated that the central government has been continuously targeting Congress and other opposition leaders by misusing agencies such as the ED and the CBI. Elected representatives of non-BJP-ruled states are being intimidated through fear of the ED. The central government has crossed all limits of repression, and through its verdict, the court has exposed the BJP and the central government before the 150 crore people of the country.
Kamlesh said that this is a rarest-of-rare case in which neither any financial transaction took place nor any property was transferred, yet an ED case under money laundering laws was registered. He alleged that Mrs. Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi were subjected to hours-long questioning in the name of investigation, amounting to mental harassment. He added that this is possibly the only Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) case in the country registered on the basis of a private criminal complaint, whereas such cases are generally initiated on complaints by constitutional agencies or the police.
Following the court’s order, Kamlesh demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah have no moral right to continue in their positions and should resign immediately.
The protest was attended by Pradesh Congress co-incharge Sreebella Prasad, Congress Legislature Party leader Pradeep Yadav, former state president Rajesh Thakur, Shehzada Anwar, Viksal Kongadi, Rajiv Ranjan Prasad, Shamsher Alam, Jyoti Singh Matharu, Rakesh Sinha, Amulya Niraj, Kumar Raja Khalko, Alok Kumar Dubey, Rajesh Gupta, Kishore Shahdeo, Sonal Shanti, Rama Khalko, Abhilash Sahu, Somnath Munda, Lal Prem Prakash Shahdeo, M. Tausif, Sukher Bhagat, Ravi Mishra, Vinay Singh Deepu, Kedar Paswan, Baljeet Singh Bedi, Ashok Chaudhary, Ravindra Jha, Suryakant Shukla, Amarendra Singh, Ajay Singh, Rajan Verma, Prince Singh, Paritosh Singh, C.P. Santan, Mahendra Mishra, Vinay Oraon, Jagdish Sahu, Neeraj Bhokta, Manzoor Ansari, Satyanarayan Singh, Neetu
Devi, Mary Tirkey, Khagendra Saw, Prabhat Kumar, Saleem Khan, Saurabh Agrawal, and a large number of Congress leaders and workers.
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