Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s meeting with the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday, to be questioned in connection with a money laundering case linked to the National Herald newspaper, turned into a show of strength with party leaders and workers hitting the streets and courting arrests as part of the country-wide protests.
In Delhi, Congress MPs took out a symbolic march from Parliament to highlight the ‘political vendetta’ and ‘misuse’ of central agencies against political rivals. “All Congress MPs and Congress Working Committee members have courted mass arrest outside our party headquarters in a show of collective solidarity with Sonia Gandhi, a target of ‘Vishguru’s’ political vendetta,” Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said after the march.
