The Enforcement Directorate’s raids on the premises of two Congress leaders as part of a money laundering probe, and a summons issued to Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot’s son, led to a political slugfest on Thursday ahead of the State’s Assembly election. Mr. Gehlot accused the BJP-led Union government of using the Enforcement Directorate (ED) like “swarms of locusts”.
The ED conducted raids at State Congress president Govind Singh Dotasra’s residences in Jaipur and Sikar, and at Om Prakash Hudla’s hotel in Dausa district’s Mahuwa, where he has been fielded as the Congress candidate for the upcoming poll. The raids were part of the ED’s investigation of the leak of a general knowledge question paper in the senior teacher grade II competitive examination of 2022.
The summons issued to Vaibhav Gehlot in a foreign exchange violation case asked him to depose before the ED at its headquarters in New Delhi on October 27. This case pertains to a Rajasthan-based hospitality group, whose promoter had earlier been the junior Mr. Gehlot’s business partner in a car rental company. The ED reportedly wants to record Mr. Vaibhav Gehlot’s statement under the Foreign Exchange Management Act.
