As the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday conducted raids at close to a dozen locations in poll-bound Punjab, including the residence of Chief Minister (CM) Charanjit Singh Channi's nephew, Bhupinder Singh Honey, in connection with an illegal sand mining case, the Congress called it “vendetta politics” against a Dalit CM and described the ED as the “election department” of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
While the Punjab Chief Minister said the raids were an attempt to put pressure by targeting him and his ministers ahead of the February 20 polling for the 117 Assembly seats, his colleague and Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu said conducting “raids on anybody doesn’t mean that one is guilty”.
