Hitting out at the Bharatiya Janata Party government at the Centre for the Enforcement Directorate’s raids against Congress leaders in Rajasthan, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday said the countdown for Prime Minister Narendra Modi had begun following the use of Central investigating agencies as “political weapons”. The ED would soon learn its lesson for harassing the politicians, he said.
The ED had conducted raids on the premises of State Congress chief Govind Singh Dotasra, contesting the upcoming Assembly election from Lachhmangarh, and Congress candidate from Mahuwa, Om Prakash Hudla, as part of a money laundering probe on Thursday. The ED has also issued summons to Mr. Gehlot’s son in a separate foreign exchange violation case.
Mr. Gehlot said at a press conference here that the ED had targeted Mr. Dotasra because he was quite vocal against the BJP. The State Congress chief had given publicity to the government’s policies, programmes and decisions, but he was also criticising the BJP government at the Centre, he said.
