The Congress party has been on the roads ever since its top most leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi were grilled by Enforcement Directorate (ED) in the alleged National Herald irregularity case. The BJP calls it another example of “parivarvad”. But talking to Kumar Shakti Shekhar in a free-wheeling and exclusive interview, Rajya Sabha MP, Congress general secretary in-charge of communications department and former Union minister Jairam Ramesh accuses the BJP of misusing ED and of being the biggest laundering machine. Edited excerpts:
Q: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was interrogated by ED for five days and then party president Sonia Gandhi was quizzed for three days. This was followed by the sealing of the Young Indian office in Herald House at Bahadurshah Zafar Marg in Delhi. Leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge was also summoned and grilled by ED on August 4 for seven hours at a time when the monsoon session of Parliament is in progress. What do you have to say about the whole episode?
